Under the Mountain Wall: A Chronicle of Two Seasons in Stone Age New Guinea
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- Synopsis
- In the Baliem Valley in central New Guinea live a Stone Age tribe which survived into the twentieth century, the Kurelu. Peter Matthiessen joined the Harvard-Peabody Expedition of 1961 which set out to study this primitive people as unobtrusively as possible, living among the Kurelu for two seasons, and produced a classic account, not of the expedition, but of a lost culture in all its violence and simplicity. Drawing on his skills as a naturalist and novelist, Matthiessen observes the Kurelus' timeless rhythms of work and play, of warriorship, feasting and funerals in one of the worlds last and now vanishing wildernesses
- Copyright:
- 1990
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- Book Size:
- 305 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9781101663202
- Related ISBNs:
- 9780099575672, 9780099448655, 9781448139477, 9780758109262, 9780140095487, 9780140252705, 9781860461637
- Publisher:
- Penguin Group US
- Date of Addition:
- 07/23/14
- Copyrighted By:
- Peter Matthiessen, 1
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- History, Nonfiction, Travel, Social Studies
- Submitted By:
- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.