- Hardcover: 432 pages
- Publisher: HarperCollins; illustrated edition edition (3 Mar 2003)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0002261707
- ISBN-13: 978-0002261708
- Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 18.4 x 5 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 724,587 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Tahir Shah, Travel Writer, author of In Search of King Solomon's Mines.
"A captivating book...a glorious insight into the world’s most unknown quarters...a master of the most magical prose."
Daily Express Travel Book of the Week, 8 March, 2003
"This is a richly detailed account of this idyllic, untouched land."
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
This is the first book on the Island Provinces of Papua New Guinea rather than the Highlands for a hundred years and what a brilliant book it is! Finely-written with beautiful photographs (particularly of children and island landscape) as well as excellent maps.
Clearly a product of extensive research, this book gives the reader a balanced insight into a vanishing world in a way that is both informative and entertaining. The islands are still almost pristine and 'stone-age' in character but not for much longer I fear.
This is travel writing of the highest quality about a place most readers are highly unlikely to visit. The account of the great Polish anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski in the Trobriand "Islands of Love" is both penetrating and enlightening. Moran is one of those rare travel writers who respects what he sees and communicates this to the reader with dry humour and deep understanding. Life in Papua New Guinea can be both "terrible and wonderful" by turns - Moran steers us through the cultural labyrinth with great talent. I am looking forward to the Polish edition!
"Beyond the Coral Sea" should become the standard work and required reading for anyone contemplating a trip to Papua New Guinea - even those who are not.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Moran's style and humour prevails throughout this compelling and meaningful book. From start to finish one is engulfed into a world so unlike anything that exists in the west. For that very reason, you cannot help but feel a sense of excitement and adventure. Add into that his dry (with an 'old world' British twist) sense of humour and it becomes captivating. It's clear that Moran's subjects are all very well researched. The depth and breath of knowledge of this obscure place and its people can only have come from someone who has a genuine interest in it, and enough passion in him to actually go there! It's this interest and passion that shines through, making it (in my opinion) one of the most unusual and offbeat travel books around today.
If you're bored with your humdrum life, and dream of flights of fancy in far away places, then this is the book for you. The concept of this book has actually inspired me to travel to far away places too. I left my boring life in London behind to travel the continent of South America for 2 years, and a lot of the impetus I needed to make that move was generated by reading "Beyond the coral sea". Thanks Michael Moran!
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Picked this up quite by chance but (unlike many other "travel books", I have read) was a page-turner from beginning to end. The author brings to life the subject matter so that (as is intended from a book in the genre) you really wish you could go to New Guinea.
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things i never knew
I thoroughly enjoyed this book not least because it gave me a whole new insight into the "western" rose tinted glasses of pacifica and papua new guinea. Read more
Published 3 days ago by ngimangi
Inspiring and educational read
Michael Moran is a master when it comes to creating an atmosphere of the surroundings in his travels and telling the mostly brutal history of Papua New Guinea. Read more
Published 1 month ago by I. Lemm
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