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London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1956. Publishers original blue cloth with silver lettering to spine. Dustwrapper: clipped, wear to extremities, minor chipping and rubbing, now protected in Brodart. White endpapers, no inscriptions, slight offset browning to endpapers, booksellers label to rear of front board. 255pp. plus 28 illustrations and 1 map. The author undertook a voyage of exploration of an unusual kind, to make films of aborigines in the islands of the south-west Pacific, he set out on a round trip via Bombay, Southern India and Ceylon to Celebes in Indonesia and on to New Guinea and New Zealand. Alone on foot he visited the remote villages, lived as the native Toraja people attending their death festivals, listened to their songs, hunted birds and climbed to their secrete caves. His aim was to get to know their arts, ceremonies and taboos and to discover their mythology. Here is gives a fascinating account of this journey.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.