Ion Idriess shares with his readers yet another rich deposit of the fascinating information he has uncovered on his wanderings in the 1920s. He is not content to pick up what lies on the surface, but delves into strange places, not only in the wilds of Australia and New Guinea, but in the shadowy regions of the minds of the primitive.Idriess investigates the mysteries of the cave paintings of the Kimberleys and the powers of telepathy exercised by the natives of Cape York Peninsula and the Torres Strait islands. Most fascinating of all, perhaps, is the picture given of swamp life in Northern Australia and on the mighty Fly and Sepik rivers of New Guinea, where a thousand-mile voyage is made through the eerie and terrifying world of the "Sea of Swamps" to the hidden villages of headhunters.
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The Vanished People
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- I. The Mother
- II. Miss Tarzan
- III. The Lost Lead
- IV. “Feather and Plug”
- V. We Build the Temple of Jupiter
- VI. We Build the Pyramids
- VII. The Sleeper in the Bush
- VIII. The Mystery of Our Cave Paintings
- IX. The Mystery of the Kimberley
- X. Ageless Beliefs of Black, White and Brown
- XI. The Fingerprint System of Stone Age Man
- XII. The Sign of the Cross
- XIII. The Euro Totem
- XIV. Tools of Trade
- XV. Where I Am the Hero
- XVI. In Which We Seek Mysterious Secrets
- XVII. The Sleeping Power
- XVIII. Facets of the Mind
- XIX. We Find out More and More
- XX. A Story of the Swamps : Cups of Death
- XXI. Come Swamping with Me
- XXII. Mysteries of the Mangroves
- XXIII. The Cuirass
- XXIV. Come Visit the Sepik
- XXV. The Headhunter’s Land
- XXVI. The River and the Grasses
- XXVII. The Embarrassing Headhunter
- XXVIII. Australia’s Burden
- XXIX. Within the World of the Swamp Men
- XXX. Where Islands Float
- XXXI. Surprises of the Swamp Lands
- XXXII. The Fathest Outpost
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