Argonauts of the Western Pacific
Subtitle: An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea
Publisher: Routledge
Published: October 12, 1978
Language: eng
Number of pages: 616
ISBN-13: 9780415090940
First sentence: THE coastal populations of the South Sea Islands, with very few exceptions, are, or were before their extinction, expert navigators and traders.