New Guinea Diaries, 1871-1883

PAPUA NEW GUINEA Exploration

Nicholai Nikolaevich Miklouho-Maclay was a Russian Imperial explorer of Cossack Noble origins. He worked as an ethnologist, anthropologist and biologist who became famous as one of the earliest scientists to settle among and study indigenous people of New Guinea who had never seen a European.

• 365 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 22 cm #220823

• About the diaries
• Student years and voyage to New Guinea
• The diaries 1871-1872 : first visit to the Maclay Coast
• The Dutch New Guinea and Malay Peninsular expeditions
• The diaries 1876-1877 : second visit to the Maclay Coast
• The years in Australia
• The diaries 1883 : Third visit to the Maclay Coast
• The annexation of New Guinea and the death of Maclay
• Astrolabe Bay after the death of Maclay.
• Previous edition: 1975.
• Miklukho-Maklai, Nikolai Nikolaevich, 1846-1888 — Diaries
• Ethnologists — Russia — Biography
• Explorers — Russia — Biography
• Scientists — Russia — Biography
• Ethnology — Papua New Guinea
• Papua New Guinea — Discovery and exploration — Russian
• Papua New Guinea — Description and travel
• Papua New Guinea (PNG)
• Australian