Pearls and savages: adventures in the air, on land and sea -- in New Guinea. . . .
by [NEW GUINEA -- SILENT FILMS]. HURLEY, Frank
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About This Item
New York & London: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1924. Thick tall 8vo. xiii, [1], 414 pp. Illustrated title page. Photo frontisp., 79 photo illustrations. Green publisher’s cloth, gilt decorative lettering front cover, gilt lettering on spine, photo-illustrated endpapers, t.e.g. (minor bumping to couple corners), still VG bright copy. First American edition, of this lavishly illustrated work featuring the photo illustrations drawn from Hurley’s 1921 silent film documentary, Pearls and Savages. He further edited, and enhanced the film for re-release in October, 1923, with the follow-up film title “With the headhunters in Papua” released in October, 1923. The documentary expedition surrounded photographing, and recording the work of Anglican missionaries working amongst the peoples of Papua, New Guinea, and the Torres Strait. Hurley and McCulloch dubiously obtained hundreds of objects, including sacred items from indigenous peoples at the time, and in fact the territorial administrator, Sir Hubert Murray, intervened by ordering some returned, and Hurley was refused reentry to shoot more films.
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- Bookseller
- Zephyr Used & Rare Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 59714
- Title
- Pearls and savages: adventures in the air, on land and sea -- in New Guinea. . . .
- Author
- [NEW GUINEA -- SILENT FILMS]. HURLEY, Frank
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- G.P. Putnam’s Sons,
- Place of Publication
- New York & London:
- Date Published
- 1924.
- Keywords
- New Guinea, Australia, Australasia, Indigenous Peoples, Silent Films, Film, Movies, Cinema, Frank Hurley, South Pacific, Headhunters, Head Hunters, Documentary, Documentaries, Pearls and Savages, Travel, Adventure
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