Risky Shores: Savagery and Colonialism in the Western Pacific, by George K. Behlmer

Melanesian cannibals and ‘uncivilised’ natives were feared and fascinating, says Lincoln Allison

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August 30, 2018
Last updated
August 30, 2018
Lincoln Allison
A skull and other human bones
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Print headline: Empire’s wildly alluring fringes

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