Papua New Guinea: Tales from a Wild Island
Robert Hale Ltd (Verlag)
978-0-7090-8449-5 (ISBN)
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Howard Beck is no ordinary travel writer. When visiting a country, he immerses himself totally in his experiences, taking his readers to new levels of awareness. In "Papua New Guinea: Tales from a Wild Island", the earthy narrative introduces the reader to a rugged land of 10,000 colourful tribes, a weird and wonderful bestiary and an adventurous author whose culinary bent finds him dining on python, rat, bat, parrot and insect pupae.Adventures in a land described as 'like every place you've never been' see Howard one moment standing on the country's highest mountains, the next exploring the mysterious world beneath the jungle in search of the planet's deepest cave.His travels with a 'tea-towel map', described with down to earth and often amusing clarity, will have the reader warming to tales of archery contests with wild tribesmen, the discovery of macabre burial sites, sorcery in the dead of night and of being invited to live with a tribe in the land of Laughing Death, where the deceased are exhumed and eaten as a mark of respect. Lavishly illustrated, this is a book to inspire adventurers and travellers alike, whether aspiring or of the armchair variety.
Howard Beck has been an explorer, speleologist and traveller for some forty years, having gained experience of wilderness areas in the Arctic, equatorial forests and the Saharan Atlas. He has led expeditions to Norway and to what at the time (1976) was the deepest cave system in the world, the Gouffre de la Pierre Saint Martin, in the French Pyrenees. His first book, 'Gaping Gill: 150 Years of Exploration', was released in 1984 (Hale). Howard is still very much active, and keeps fit in his beloved Yorkshire Dales by walking, and cycling as much as 100 miles in a day. He has recently returned from four months travelling through Chile, the 'Thin Country'. He has a twenty-four year old daughter, Tamlyn, and lives in Lancashire, where he describes himself as an exiled Yorkshireman.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 1.2.2009 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | col. Illustrations |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Themenwelt | Reisen ► Reiseberichte ► Australien / Neuseeland / Ozeanien |
| ISBN-10 | 0-7090-8449-8 / 0709084498 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-7090-8449-5 / 9780709084495 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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