“A piquant and well illustrated book.”—Graphic.
“A vivid and carefully detailed record in which humour and horror keep company.”—Dundee Advertiser.
“Mr. Beaver has contributed much of value and interest to the gradually accumulating knowledge of New Guinea, and his premature death will prove a great loss to the science of anthropology.”—A. C. Haddon, M.A., Sc.D., F.R.S.
“A most valuable and informing book describing a weirdly fascinating country, and Mr. Beaver’s account is all the more valuable as it is the only book that deals with the western division as a whole.”—Aberdeen Journal.
“A true explorer who achieved much. The book deals with its most formidable division—the vast unknown West ... illustrated with unique photographs, and told in simple, modest language which can hardly fail to grip the reader.”—Country Life.
“The Ukairavi people are cannibals who used literally to regard the Morobai as a kind of larder from which supplies of fresh meat could be obtained together with a little excitement in the hunting of their victims.”—Glasgow Herald.
“May be taken as the first standard work on the interior of New Guinea ... contains a wealth of detail admirably illustrated. A really valuable and at the same time an intensely interesting book.”—Sheffield Telegraph.
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