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Penguin. Harmondsworth, Middlesex, UK. 1988. First UK cardcover edition;. pages ix, 317, bibliog.; text fully illustrated with photos, map; pictorial cardcover fine condition. . Out-of-print, very scarce, much sought after. "A wonderfully exciting record of a marvelous human adventure....First Contact takes what began as a simple search for gold and transforms into a 24-karat description of the modern world's encounter with the last isolated society on Earth." The story of Australian Michael Leahy's expeditions searching for gold in the unexplored Central Highlands of New Guinea from 1930 onwards. For hundreds of gemerations, the Highland people of New Guinea had inhabited a beautiful valley (the Wahgi River Valley), and scores of other valleys, cut off from the rest of the World. Then in 1930, mysterious white men came over the hills. Were they sky beings ? Or the returning spirits of the dead ?