Dimensions
127 x 197 x 15mm
A stunning novel exploring the clash of cultures and civilisations.
This beautifully crafted, evocative novel is set in Papua New Guinea and based on the 1877 journey of the Italian naturalist, collector and explorer Luigi d'Albertis as he and his crew travel up the Fly River in search of new specimens, ethnographic artefacts and the much-prized bird of paradise. It is told from the perspective of a head in a jar, the head of a local tribesma n, killed and preserved by Albertis's crew. Two cultures, two totally opposite world views are dramatised moment by moment in this stunningly original work.
