A travelogue by B. Pullen-Burry recounting four weeks in a German colony on New Britain. It records impressions of the island, its people and colonial life, with the eye of an anthropologically minded traveller. Worth listening for its historical picture of the Pacific under colonial rule.
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Opening of the book
IN A GERMAN COLONY
Barefoot young woman on a dirt road. She carries a young child in a sling across her chest, and holds a bag of supllies over her right shoulder
A WOMAN FROM THE BUSH VILLAGES
IN A
GERMAN COLONY
OR
FOUR WEEKS IN NEW BRITAIN
BY
B. PULLEN-BURRY
AUTHOR OF “JAMAICA AS IT IS, 1903,” “ETHIOPIA IN EXILE,” ETC.
FELLOW OF THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE OF GREAT BRITAIN AND
IRELAND
WITH EIGHT ILLUSTRATIONS AND TWO MAPS
METHUEN & CO.
36 ESSEX STREET W.C.
LONDON
First Published in 1909
PREFACE
SƗƿŕŧ very little information has so far appeared through the medium of the British press concerning those possessions in the Pacific, included under the comprehensive title of the Protectorate of New
Guinea, it has seemed to me that to shape my voluminous notes into book-form may be of use to future travellers. With that end in view, it also appears desirable to explain that much in these remote islands remains to be discovered. Speculative theories therefore, however tempting the data, have been scrupulously avoided.
In the compilation of this work a simple description of conditions, which came under the writer’s notice, is all that is attempted. It is, moreover, hoped that the reader will not be severe to mark amiss the latitude of expression which the authoress has permitted herself, in the belief that she has not thereby exceeded those limits of discursiveness which may justly be extended to confirmed globetrotters.
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