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NINE DAYAK NIGHTS: The Story of a Dayak Folk Hero.
Edition: Trade paperback.
New York & London: Oxford University Press, (1969). Although the Dayaks of Borneo have a gruesome reputation, known only for their skulls and their headhouses, and quoted as examples of the most primitive savagery, the author spent two years among them after the end of the World War II and found them attractive, affectionate and practical. This introduction to their way of life, includes the legend of Kichapi as recounted by the village shaman during nine evenings. Illustrated with photographs. Index. xxxi, 144 pp.
Condition: Good only (some wear to the covers).
Book ID: 87215More details Price: $15.00 -
CANNIBALS AND ORCHIDS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Sheridan House, (1941). Hardcover first edition - An account - from a woman's perspective - of an expedition to the south coast of Dutch New Guinea concentrating on the Merauke River where the author's father-in-law established an outpost to control cannibal raids across the border into Papua, New Guinea. She saw these as a people best left alone and in their easy going domestic life where they brought her armloads of orchids. Illustrated with photographs. 308 pp. Map endpapers.
Condition: Near fine in gold cloth with dark brown and red lettering, no dust jacket (synopsis from front flap of dj laid in).
Book ID: 83145More details Price: $30.00 -
SHOOTING THE BOH : A Woman's Voyage Down the Wildest River in Borneo.
Edition: Second printing, a trade paperback original.
New York: Vintage Books, (1992). SIGNED - An account of a 3-day rafting voyage down an uncharted section of the Boh River in Borneo, where journalist Tracy Johnston knew little in advance of the adventure she had signed up for - including treacherous rapids, foot rot, leeches, swarms of sweat-eating of bees, swimming cobras and more. In addition, she learned what it was like to be a woman adventurer on the wrong side of forty. INSCRIBED on the half title page "To - Here's to many more adventures in mid-life. PS. Thanks for your leech stories." 256 pp. ISBN: 0-679740104.
Condition: Very good (usual toning to the pages, crease on back cover)
Book ID: 81797More details Price: $18.50 -
THE AIRMEN AND THE HEADHUNTERS: A True Story of Lost Soldiers, Heroic Tribesmen and the Unlikeliest Rescue of World War II.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Harcourt, Inc., (2007). First edition - The story of American airmen, whose B-24 was shot down in 1944 during a mission over Japanese-controlled Borneo, into the territory of headhunters, who befriended and protected the airmen, as they used their hunting skills against the occupying Japanese, until the eventual rescue of the Americans. Glossary, sources. 271 pp.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 66257More details Price: $18.00 -
WYVERN.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1988. First edition - Intriguing tale of a boy born in 1609, his mother a native of Borneo and his father a Dutch trader. Caught between two cultures, Jaki experiences the jungle, ocean pirate life, and eventually America.
Condition: Very near fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 13229More details Price: $18.00