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Throwim Way Leg: Adventures In The Jungles Of New Guinea
bookshelves: hardback, nonfiction, one-penny-wonder, new-guinea, zoology, sciences, paper-read, published-1998, adventure, autobiography-memoir, ouch, medical-eew, environmental-issues, spring-2012
Recommended to ☯Bettie☯ by: Spotted on Jeanette's profile
Recommended for: Overbylass
Read from April 12 to 13, 2012
DISCARDED FROM SOLIHULL PUBLIC LIBRARIES
Dedication: I dedicate this book to Jim-Bob Moffett, his successors and all the other CEO's of mining companies with interests in Melanesia, in the hope that, through reading it, they will understand a little better the people whose lives they so profoundly change.
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Opening: In New Guinea Pidgin, throwim way leg means to go on a journey. It describes the action of thrusting out your leg to take the first step of what can be a long march.
- No guide to New Guinea's mammals existed before 1990.
- Before 1973 the West Miyanmin would divide the year into two season - dry season = pig hunting and wet season = man-hunting.
- 16 sides of wonderful glossy photographs.
- Flannery is a '56 baby
- You too could eat out on guests of the ring-tailed lemur.
Most of this book is made up of the adventures and hardships endured before the grand and wonderful discovery of *drum roll* 'Dingiso'.
The Dingiso is currently (2003) listed as a vulnerable species. It is endemic to Indonesia. It was first discovered by an Australian named Dr Tim Flannery in 1987. He roamed the mountains in New Guinea and discovered four new varieties of tree kangaroo. He named this Dendrolagus mbaiso, referring to it as "It's a beautiful thing, and no biologist had ever seen one before." Flannery describes the Dingiso as "none was as unusual as Dingiso and none such an interesting evolutionary and cultural story to tell."
Dingiso (Dendrolagus mbaiso)
There is also the *sigh* issue of foriegn mining concerns and the inherent careless dumping of slag which causes environmental and human worries.
Had thought that this would be a dipindipout type of read however I found I couldn't put it down, so whilst Mr. Flannery is not a writer as such, he had me enthralled with his honest descriptions and the excitement of adding twenty new species to the index of world mammals.
Dedication: I dedicate this book to Jim-Bob Moffett, his successors and all the other CEO's of mining companies with interests in Melanesia, in the hope that, through reading it, they will understand a little better the people whose lives they so profoundly change.
Map
Opening: In New Guinea Pidgin, throwim way leg means to go on a journey. It describes the action of thrusting out your leg to take the first step of what can be a long march.
- No guide to New Guinea's mammals existed before 1990.
- Before 1973 the West Miyanmin would divide the year into two season - dry season = pig hunting and wet season = man-hunting.
- 16 sides of wonderful glossy photographs.
- Flannery is a '56 baby
- You too could eat out on guests of the ring-tailed lemur.
Most of this book is made up of the adventures and hardships endured before the grand and wonderful discovery of *drum roll* 'Dingiso'.
The Dingiso is currently (2003) listed as a vulnerable species. It is endemic to Indonesia. It was first discovered by an Australian named Dr Tim Flannery in 1987. He roamed the mountains in New Guinea and discovered four new varieties of tree kangaroo. He named this Dendrolagus mbaiso, referring to it as "It's a beautiful thing, and no biologist had ever seen one before." Flannery describes the Dingiso as "none was as unusual as Dingiso and none such an interesting evolutionary and cultural story to tell."
Dingiso (Dendrolagus mbaiso)There is also the *sigh* issue of foriegn mining concerns and the inherent careless dumping of slag which causes environmental and human worries.Had thought that this would be a dipindipout type of read however I found I couldn't put it down, so whilst Mr. Flannery is not a writer as such, he had me enthralled with his honest descriptions and the excitement of adding twenty new species to the index of world mammals.
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