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Seller's Description:
Fair. An unusal book, deeply discounted due to the foxing. Inner dust jacket, fly pages and first few pages suffer from foxing. Binding solid, rest of pages crisp and clean, gift inscription on fly page. Dust jacket bright but worn. Small tear at back corners, a bit of erosion at base of spine. Laminate wrinkling in back, small crease, light scuffs and dents. Small box cutter slice on front. Back board a bit bowed. Extremities lightly bumped and quite rubbed. No expedited or international shipping of this oversize book.
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F in F jacket. F/F. 4to. original brown boards gilt in dustwrapper; pp. x (last blank), 236 (last blank), with illustrations + maps. Heavy item (1.4kg), additional postage may be required for international delivery. A fine copy.
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Very good in very good dust jacket. 244 p. Includes: illustrations, bibliography. This pictorial study of a fast disappearing part of the world is the work of a remarkable Australian geographer and anthropologist. From 1971 until his death in 1976 (he was only 30). Robert Mitton worked, lived and travelled in the Indonesian province of Irian Jaya, formerly West Irian. In notes, letters, diaries and, above all, photographs, he compiled a unique document of his experiences of the cultures and environments of the five distinct groups living along the Balim (Baliem) River, a particularly remote part of the world. Indeed, at that time, there were still groups of people who had never seen Europeans or Indonesians; still groups living a Stone Age style of existence; and still people who were head-hunters and cannibals. With political, social, and technological changes coming so rapidly, many of the cultures Mitton observed are now disintegrating, and his record is a sad but enthralling and irreplaceable portrait of a people and region that will never be quite the same again.
