Under the Mountain Wall: A Chronicle of Two Seasons in Stone Age New Guinea
by Matthiessen, Peter
- Used
- very good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0140252703
- ISBN 13
- 9780140252705
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About This Item
Penguin Classics, 1987. Softcover. Very Good. 5x0x7. In Very Good+ condition. In the Baliem Valley in central New Guinea live the Kurelu, a Stone Age tribe that survived into the twentieth century. Peter Matthiessen visited the Kurelu with the Harvard-Peabody Expedition in 1961 and wrote Under the Mountain Wall as an account not of the expedition, but of the great warrior Weaklekek, the swineherd Tukum, U-mue and his family, and the boy Weake, killed in a surprise raid. Matthiessen observes these people in their timeless rhythm of work and play and war, of gardening and wood gathering, feasts and funerals, pig stealing and ambushes. Drawing on his great skills as a naturalist and novelist, Matthiessen offers an exceptional account of an ancient culture on the brink of incalculable change.
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- Bookseller
- Michael Patrick McCarty, Bookseller (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- SKU2020022737
- Title
- Under the Mountain Wall: A Chronicle of Two Seasons in Stone Age New Guinea
- Author
- Matthiessen, Peter
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0140252703
- ISBN 13
- 9780140252705
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Place of Publication
- E Rutherford, New Jersey, U.s.a.
- Date Published
- 1987
- Size
- 5x0x7
- X weight
- 11 oz
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