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First Contact
by Bob Connolly, Robin Anderson
from Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• Captivating Memoir of Repeated First Contacts in New Guinea - With Photos
  Michael Leahy, James Taylor and their indigenous crews searched for gold in the New Guinea Highlands during the 1930's. They found perhaps a million previously unknown people of some 5,000 different tribes speaking 2,000 different languages - each tribe isolated by mutually enforced strict boundaries. When Leahy first entered the Highlands in 1930 he took a camera but rarely used it. By 1933 he saw himself as not only a gold prospector and entrepreneur but an explorer with an unparalleled opportunity to... more info

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