Gardens of War: Life and Death in the New Guinea Stone Age

The Dugum Dani, of whose culture this extraordinary book is the first full photographic record, are a Stone Age tribe of neolithic warrior farmers who live in the grand valley of Baliem in the Central Highlands of Western New Guinea. At the times these photographs were taken, the Dugum Dani were virtually untouched by any forms of modern civilization.

Publisher: Random House, New York
Date Published: 1968 (First Printing)
Book Condition: Very good hardcover with minor wear and marks to board edges. In an unclipped dust jacket showing minor surface and edge wear and several edge chips and a 4cm closed tear to the upper outer edge of the back of dust jacket, that has been repaired with paper repair tape. Some minor tan spots to the pastedowns and endpapers. Minor creasing to top corner of the front of the front endpaper and the next page. Some tan markings to the outer edge of the text block. There is some minor edge binding gap where the spine meets the first colour plate, with some minor rubbing to the top edge of the first colour plate. Otherwise, an unmarked copy internally.