Under The Mountain Wall: A Chronicle Of Two Seasons In Stone Age New Guinea by Peter Matthiessen

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. This 1987 Penguin (Non-Classics) Paperback is in good condition. Pages tanning, light wear on cover.

ISBN: 9780140095487 SKU: 1569420 This image is of the actual book.

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