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Samoafahrten: Reisen in Kaiser Wilhelms-Land und Englisch-Neu-Guinea in den Jahren 1884 u. 1885 an Bord des deutschen Dampfers "Samoa"

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Title
Samoafahrten: Reisen in Kaiser Wilhelms-Land und Englisch-Neu-Guinea in den Jahren 1884 u. 1885 an Bord des deutschen Dampfers "Samoa"
Subject
Voyages and travels
Germany--Colonies
Great Britain--Colonies
Colonization
Ethnology
Papua New Guinea--History
Category
1. Settlement
Author
Finsch, Otto
Publisher
Ferdinand Hirt & Sohn
Place of Publication
Leipzig
Keywords
description of landscape and Aboriginal people
Current holder
National Library of Australia
Period of reference
1884 – 1885
Date
January 1, 1888
Link
https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/catalog/4734674
Item number
4734674
Access rights
Request at location
Rights
Out of Copyright
Country of origin
Germany
Place
New Ireland
New Britain
Language
German
English
French
Description from source
390 p. 11 pl., front. (port.) ill., 6 maps in the text., 23 cm + 1 Atlas (56 p., 24 leaves of plates: ill., 29 cm.
Hallstrom Pacific Collection (Hallstrom no. 46)

Rare ethnographical work on New Guinea by the ethnographer and naturalist Otto Finsch (1839-1917). The title is misleading, and does not relate to the Samoan Islands, but rather to the ship "Samoa" Finsch travelled on
Physical format
Books
Maps
Abstract
Rare ethnographical work on New Guinea by the ethnographer and naturalist Otto Finsch (1839-1917). The title is misleading, and does not relate to the Samoan Islands, but rather to the ship "Samoa" Finsch travelled on. Text volume in German; Atlas text in German, English and French.
Bibliographic citation
<p><a href="https://www.zotero.org/groups/4688363/oama/items/I2W9E7ES/">https://www.zotero.org/groups/4688363/oama/items/I2W9E7ES/</a></p>