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User Review - nandadevi - LibraryThingSouter has written a hugely readable history of the exploration and colonisation of the island of New Guinea by the Dutch, British and Germans between 1875 and 1963. When all of the rest of the world ... Read full review
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| Title | New Guinea: The Last Unknown A & R paperbacks edition A&R paperbacks |
| Author | Gavin Souter |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Angus & Robertson, 1974 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 16 Dec 2008 |
| ISBN | 0207130418, 9780207130410 |
| Length | 296 pages |
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