Pygmonia: My Quest for the Secret Land of the Pygmies by Peter McAllister

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Secondhand. Fair condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Pages have sunned.Previous owner has signed inside front cover. Someone has used this book as a cutting board - there is a cut to the front cover and the next three pages that is now repaired with book tape.

A recent chapter in the history wars has returned a colonial-era mystery to the limelight: The existence of several tribes of Pygmy Aboriginal peoples in the Cairns and Yarrabah Peninsula regions in Queensland. Despite a general belief in their extinction, their descendants still live around Cairns, as archaeologist Peter McAllister found on a recent research trip. Attempting to unravel their origins led McAllister to discover the fascinating truth about Pygmy peoples, who, contrary to common belief, still live in isolated pockets around the world, from South America to South-East Asia. (Trove)