THE FATAL IMPACT: AN ACCOUNT OF THE INVASION OF THE SOUTH PACIFIC 1767-1840
Written by Alan Moorehead.
Stock no. 1831257
Published by Hamish Hamilton. 1st 1966. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

The late Alan Moorehead evocatively recounts the almost inevitable tragic consequences for the native people and cultures of the South Pacific when Western man "discovered" them, even when the discoverer, Cook, was no conquistador and had come with high hopes of peaceful and productive co-existence. Green cloth boards, gilt title on red title block to spine. B/w photos and illustratilons. xiv and 230 pages including index. Top edge green. Boards clean. Text block browned. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Some foxing and browning to contents. Pictorial dustwrapper is a little grubby and lightly edge-rubbed.

AYERS ROCK: ITS PEOPLE, THEIR BELIEFS AND THEIR ART
Written by Charles P. Mountford.
Stock no. 1830527
Published by Angus & Robertson Ltd.. 1st 1965. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

This is a study of the huge monolith that rises over 1,100 feet in the western desert of central Australia, and the daily life, beliefs and art forms of its aboriginal inhabitants, the Pitjandjara tribe. Brown cloth boards, gilt title to spine. 5 colour plates, b/w plates and figures to text. Fold out pages of cave painting sites. xiv and 208 pages including index. Text block lightly browned. Contents clean. Price-cut pictorial dustwrapper is edge-worn with slight loss and closed tears, spine lightly faded.

PERILOUS PARADISE: PHOTO STORY OF NEW GUINEA AND ITS EMERGING PEOPLE
Written by Eric Were.
Stock no. 1829032
Published by Pacific Press Publishing Association. 1st 1968. Very good condition.

From its steamy, mosquito-infested swamps to its high fertile valleys and mist-enshrouded peaks, New Guinea presents 300,000 square miles of highly diversified terrain with 2,000,000 needy but fascinating tribal people. This land is a perilous paradise with minimum of comfort and maximum of challenge. Especially featured in this book are a group of missionaries who are doing humanitarian work, often under difficult circumstances. Matt pictorial boards. B/w photos, a few colour photos. Not paginated. Spine lightly faded, corners of boards lightly worn. Bookplate to half-title page and a few grubby marks to same. Text block lightly browned. Contents clean.