Gardens of War, Life and Death in the New Guinea Stone Age
by Gardner, Robert and Heider, Karl G., Illustrated
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 1199375187
- ISBN 13
- 9781199375186
- Seller
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About This Item
New York: Random House, 1968. 215pp, 36 colour, 301 b/w, map. A photographic record of the Dugum Dani, "a Stone Age tribe of neolithic warrior farmers who live in the Grand Valley of Baliem in the Central Highlands of western New Guinea" where, "at the time these photographs were taken, . . . they still . . . practiced ritual warfare. . . [and] were virtually untouched by any forms of modern civilization.". 1st Printing. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.
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- Bookseller
- DBookmahn's Used and Rare Military Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 002882
- Title
- Gardens of War, Life and Death in the New Guinea Stone Age
- Author
- Gardner, Robert and Heider, Karl G., Illustrated
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- 1st Printing
- ISBN 10
- 1199375187
- ISBN 13
- 9781199375186
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1968
- Keywords
- New Guinea
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