Traveling to the Maclay Coast
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Traveling to the Maclay Coast
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The famous Russian traveler and ethnographer N. N. Miklukho-Maclay (1846-1888) discovered to the civilized world the unique nature of New Guinea and the exotic culture of the aborigines who inhabited it. In his diaries he described his life and adventures among the wild tribes of the Maclay Coast, so named during his lifetime. Now tourist airplanes fly to those places, but it was the Russian explorer and naturalist who was the first to walk down the gangway to the shore of the mysterious "Papoose".
He lived 42 years, traveled half the globe, spent several years in the malarial jungles of "Papoose", wrote a hundred scientific articles and a thousand pages of diaries, stopped several bloody wars between cannibals. They wanted to eat him, but, for their good fortune, decided first to look a little closer at the exotic "tamo russ". And when they got to know him better, they called him "the man of one word" - because he could be trusted like no one else on Earth. In the year of the 150th anniversary of his birth, Miklukho-Maclay was named a UNESCO Citizen of the World. The Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology of the Russian Academy of Sciences bears his name. Miklouho-Maclay's birthday is a professional holiday of ethnographers The volume of selected works of the outstanding Russian ethnographer includes diary entries and articles that tell about his visits to New Guinea in the 70s of the XIX century, about life among the natives, about the study of nature and the population of this region of Melanesia. The publication is richly illustrated and is addressed to all who are interested in travel, nature, and exotic cultures of the Earth.
He lived 42 years, traveled half the globe, spent several years in the malarial jungles of "Papoose", wrote a hundred scientific articles and a thousand pages of diaries, stopped several bloody wars between cannibals. They wanted to eat him, but, for their good fortune, decided first to look a little closer at the exotic "tamo russ". And when they got to know him better, they called him "the man of one word" - because he could be trusted like no one else on Earth. In the year of the 150th anniversary of his birth, Miklukho-Maclay was named a UNESCO Citizen of the World. The Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology of the Russian Academy of Sciences bears his name. Miklouho-Maclay's birthday is a professional holiday of ethnographers The volume of selected works of the outstanding Russian ethnographer includes diary entries and articles that tell about his visits to New Guinea in the 70s of the XIX century, about life among the natives, about the study of nature and the population of this region of Melanesia. The publication is richly illustrated and is addressed to all who are interested in travel, nature, and exotic cultures of the Earth.
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