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Books and reading Fiction Bougainville Island (Papua New Guinea) Fiction Dani (New Guinean people) Cultural assimilation Dani (New Guinean people) History Dani (New Guinean people) Social life and customs Ethnology Papua New Guinea Natural history Papua New Guinea Papua New Guinea Description and travel Social change Papua New Guinea Storytelling FictionJones, Lloyd
Summary: On a copper-rich tropical island shattered by war, on which survival is a daily struggle, eccentric Mr. Watts, the only white man left after the other teachers flee, spends his day reading to the local children from Charles Dickens's classic Great Expectations.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Press 2007
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC JonesJones, Lloyd
Summary: Thirteen-year-old Matilda watches as all the foreigners flee her homeland--all but one, the white man Mr. Watts. Amidst the ruins of the town schoolhouse, Watts reads Dickens' Great Expectations to the children, thus sparking their imaginations and giving them hope in a chaotic world.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2008
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC JONSummary: "Two generations of Bosavi musicians and twenty-five years of field recordings : a comprehensive and intimate musical portrait of life in a Papua New Guinea rainforest community"--Back of container.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Smithsonian Folkways Recordings 2001
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/OCEANIC FELDiamond, Jared M.
Summary: Draws on decades of field work in the Pacific islands and other world regions to illuminate the degree to which modern society reflects traditional cultures from earlier and ancient time periods.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2013
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 305.89 DIADiamond, Jared M.
Summary: Draws on decades of field work in the Pacific islands and other world regions to illuminate the degree to which modern society reflects traditional cultures from earlier and ancient time periods.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2013
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 305.89 DIAAly, Götz
Summary: "Götz Aly pens a forgotten chapter in the history of empire through the chronicle a single object: a majestic fifteen-meter boat, looted from Papua New Guinea during a German colonial expedition and since displayed in Berlin museums. While arguing for the vessel's repatriation, Aly restores attention to the conquest of the Bismarck Archipelago"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 995.3 ALYCousteau, Jean-Michel.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams 1989