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• Into the Crocodile Nest: A Journey Inside New Guinea

  Benedict Allen

  
  
   

• Throwim Way Leg: An Adventure

  Tim Flannery

  
  Mammologist Tim Flannery assumed the age of exploration had died with Darwin. Upon arrival in New Guinea, though, he realises just how wrong he's been. Hilarious and riveting, Thowim Way Leg chronicles Flannery's adventures among the mountain people of New Guinea while in hot pursuit of giant rats, tree-kangaroos, bats, possums and bandicoots. In the local pidgin, "throwim way leg" describes the first decisive step in a journey. Flannery takes that step--and soon he's clambering up steep peaks; braving jungle critters like sweat bees, hairy spiders, pythons and the occasional crocodile; and perilously close to ending up in hot water more than once. Cannibalism, he assures us, is a thing of the past, but when he comes into contact with the Miyanmin--a people who refer to a neighbouring tribe as "bokis es bilong mipela" (literally, "our refrigerator")--we're left wondering how he got out alive.

  Flannery's exuberance over the wildlife he encounters is interesting enough, but it's his ability to capture the indigenous perspective that makes this book worth reading. When his new-found friends learn, for instance, of the widespread custom of circumcision, they fall about in paroxysms of laughter. Equally perplexing (to an elderly gentlemen who has never seen rice) is how Flannery and his cronies could chance upon so many delectable ant-eggs. With 14 pages of colourful, enticing, "wish-I-could-go-there-right-now" photos. --Martha Silano

  
   

• Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands (Lonely Planet Multi Country Guide)

  Rowan McKinnon, Dean Starnes, Jean-Bernard Carillet

  
  
   

• Four Corners: A Journey into the Heart of Papua New Guinea

  Kira Salak

  
  
   

• Poisoned Arrows: An Investigative Journey Through Indonesia (Abacus Books)

  George Monbiot

  
  
   

• Travels in Papua New Guinea

  Christina Dodwell

  
  
   

• Explorations into Highland New Guinea, 1930-35

  Michael J. Leahy

  
  
   

• Papua New Guinea (Lonely Planet Regional Guides)

  Tony Wheeler, Adrian Lipscomb, Rowan McKinnon, Jon Murray

  
  
   

• Like People You See in a Dream: First Contact in Six Papuan Societies

  Edward L. Schieffelin, Robert Crittenden

  
  
   

• Where the Spirits Dwell: an Odyssey in the New Guinea Jungle

  Tobias Schneebaum

  
  
   

• Under the Mountain Wall

  Peter Matthiessen

  
  
   

• Papua New Guinea: A Travel Survival Kit

  Tony Wheeler

  
  
   

• Malinowski's Kiriwina: Fieldwork Photography, 1915-18

  MW Young

  
  
   

• The Proving Grounds: A Quest for Manhood

  Benedict Allen

  
  
   

• The Proving Grounds: Journey Through the Interior of New Guinea and Australia

  Benedict Allen

  
  
   

• A Diary in the Strict Sense of the Term

  Bronislaw Malinowski

  
  
   

• Sound and Sentiment: Birds, Weeping, Poetics and Song in Kaluli Expression (Conduct & Communication)

  Steven Feld

  
  
   

• Into the Crocodile Nest: Journey Inside New Guinea (Paladin Books)

  Benedict Allen

  
  
   

• Papua New Guinea (Hema Maps International) (Hema Maps International)

  
  
   

• Papua New Guinea (Lonely Planet Diving & Snorkeling Guides)

  Bob Halstead