New Guinea: Crossing Boundaries and History

by Clive Moore

New Guinea, the world's largest tropical island, is a land of great contrasts, ranging from small glaciers on its highest peaks to broad mangrove swamps in its lowlands and hundreds of smaller islands and coral atolls along its coasts. Divided between two nations, the island and its neighboring archipelagos form Indonesia's Papua Province (or Irian Jaya) and the independent nation of Papua New Guinea, both former European colonies. Most books on...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824824857
• ISBN13: 9780824824853
• Release Date: July 2003
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 2.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.1" x 10.7"