num_pages: 317
description: The story of the extraordinary 1930 encounter between a team of gold prospectors and a pre-technological civilization ignorant of the outside world, as remembered and photographed by those whose lives it changed.
language: English
title: First Contact: New Guinea's Highlanders Encounter the Outside World
titlecomplete: First Contact: New Guinea's Highlanders Encounter the Outside World
genres: History, Anthropology
ratings_count: 46
publisher: Viking