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New Guinea: Nature and Culture of Earth's Grandest Island

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New Guinea: Nature and Culture of Earth's Grandest Island - Beehler, Bruce M, and Laman, Tim
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Lying between the Equator and Australia's north coast, and surrounded by the richest coral reefs on Earth, New Guinea is the world's largest, highest, and most environmentally complex tropical island: home to rainforests with showy rhododendrons, strange and colorful orchids, tree-kangaroos, spiny anteaters, ingenious bowerbirds, and spectacular birds of paradise. New Guinea is also home to more than a thousand traditional human societies, each with its own language and lifestyle, and many of these tribes still live in ...

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New Guinea: Nature and Culture of Earth's Grandest Island 2020, Princeton University Press, Princeton

ISBN-13: 9780691180304

Hardcover