Journeys to the other side of the world : further adventures of a young naturalist
2018
Book
The further adventures of a young David Attenborough - from Madagascar and New Guinea to the Pacific Islands and the Northern Territory of Australia. Following the success of the original Zoo Quest expeditions, in the late 1950s onwards the young David Attenborough embarked on further travels in a very different part of the world. From Madagascar and New Guinea to the Pacific Islands and the Northern Territory of Australia, he and his cameraman companion were aiming to record not just the wildlife, but the way of life of some of the indigenous people of these regions, whose traditions had never been encountered by most of the British public before. From the land divers of Pentecost Island and the sing-sings of New Guinea, to a Roya Kava ceremony on Tonga and the ancient art of the Northern Territory, it is a journey like no other. Alongside these remarkable cultures he encounters paradise birds, chameleons, sifakas and many more animals in some of the most unique environments on the planet.
Item Details
ISBN: 9781473666672
Description: xi, 413 pages : illustrations (some colour), maps ; 20 cm
Notes: "Originally published in Great Britain in 1981 by Lutterworth Press as Journeys to the past : travels in New Guinea, Madagascar, and the Northern Territory of Australia"--Title page verso.
Control Number: 3070737
Publisher: London : Two Roads, 2018.Subjects:
- Aboriginal Australians.
- Attenborough, David, 1926-
- Attenborough, David, 1926- -- Travel -- Australia -- Northern Territory.
- Attenborough, David, 1926- -- Travel -- Madagascar.
- Attenborough, David, 1926- -- Travel -- New Guinea.
- Ethnology -- Australia -- Northern Territory.
- Ethnology -- Madagascar.
- Ethnology -- Melanesia.
- Ethnology -- New Guinea.
- Ethnology -- Papua New Guinea.
- Madagascar -- Description and travel.
- Melanesia -- Description and travel.
- New Guinea -- Description and travel.
- Wild animal collecting.
- Zoological specimens -- Collection and preservation.
- Zoology -- Australia -- Northern Territory.
- Zoology -- Madagascar.
- Zoology -- New Guinea.
Genre: Biographies.
Other Authors: revision of: Attenborough, David, 1926- Journeys to the past.