Papua New Guinea

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Available from Project Gutenberg Australia

James CHALMERS (1841-1901)

• Adventures in New Guinea (Project Gutenberg USA)

George COLLINGRIDGE (1847-1931)

• The first Discovery of Australia and New Guinea

H M DAUNCEY

• Papuan Pictures

Beatrice GRIMSHAW (1870-1953)

• The New New Guinea (1911)

Francis H H GUILLEMARD (1852-1933)

• The Cruise of the Marchesa to Kamschatka and New Guinea Vol. 1 (1886) -- PDF
• The Cruise of the Marchesa to Kamschatka and New Guinea Vol. 2 (1886) -- PDF

J. W. (John William) LINDT (1845-1926)

• Picturesque New Guinea
  (includes photographs by J.W. Lindt during Sir Peter Scratchley's Expedition)

Charles Emanuel LYNE (1850-1910)

• New Guinea: An Account of the Estab. of the British Protectorate Over the Southern Shores of New Guinea (1885)

John MacGILLIVRAY (1822-1867)

• Narrative of the Voyage of H.M.S. Rattlesnake, 1846-50, Volume 1
• Narrative of the Voyage of H.M.S. Rattlesnake, 1846-50, Volume 2
  The above ebooks include details of discoveries and surveys in New Guinea.

Kenneth MACKAY (fl. 1909)

• Across Papua (1909) (Map and many illustrations)

Nikolai Nikolaevich (Nicholas) MIKLOUHO-MACLAY (1846-1888)
Wikipedia -- Australian Dictionary of Biography

• New Guinea Diaries (1871-1883) [External link: PDF file 6mb.]
  (Translated from the Russian with biographical and historical notes by C.L. Sentinella)

John MORESBY (1830-1922)

• Discoveries and Surveys in New Guinea and the D'Entrecasteaux Islands

J. H. P. (Sir John Hubert Plunkett) MURRAY (1861-1940)

• Papua or British New Guinea

Hume NISBET

• A Colonial Tramp, Volume 1 (1891) Travels and Adventures in Australia and New Guinea
• A Colonial Tramp, Volume 2 (1891) Travels and Adventures in Australia and New Guinea

W. D. PITCAIRN

• Two Years Among the Savages of New Guinea (1891) (Project Gutenberg USA)

Sir Ernest SCOTT (1868-1939)

• A Short History of Australia (Chapter XXV, Papua and the Pacific)

H. Wilfrid WALKER

• Wanderings Among South Sea Savages And in Borneo and the Philippines (1909) (Parts IV and V)
  (Project Gutenberg USA)

Robert Wood WILLIAMSON, 1856-1932

• The Mafulu Mountain People of British New Guinea (Parts IV and V)

George Arnold WOOD, (1865-1928)

• The Discovery of Australia (There are many references to "New Guinea" and "New Britain" in this work.)

Titles available from The Internet Archive in PDF format

Wilfred M Beaver

• Unexplored New Guinea (1920)

Julia Benjamin

• Victoriana: Missionary Sister in Papua-New Guinea (1907)

George Brown (Pioneer-Missionary and Explorer)

• An Autobiography (1908)

F S Burnell

• Australia versus Germany (1915). The Story of the Taking of German New Guinea.

James Chalmers

• Pioneering in New Guinea (1880?)
• Work and Adventure in New Guinea (1902?)

Arthur Kent Chignell

• An Outpost in Papua (1911)

Charles Henry Eden

• The Fifth Continent (Ch. 12) (1902)

Thomas Forrest

• A Voyage to New Guinea and the Moluccas (1779)

A Gratten Hall

• James Chalmers (1938?)

Janet Harvey Kelman

• The Story of Chalmers of New Guinea (1906)

D H Kolff

• Voyages of the Dutch Brig of War 'Dourga' (1840)

Cuthbert Lennox

• James Chalmers of New Guinea (1902)

Albert Buell Lewis

• Carved and Painted Designs from New Guinea (1931)
• Decorative Art of New Guinea (1925)

S McFarlane

• Among the Cannibals of New Guinea (1888). The Story of the New Guinea Mission.

Bronislaw Malinowski

• Argonauts of the Western Pacific (1922)

A S Meek

• A Naturalist in Cannibal Land (1913)

C A W Monckton

• Some Experiences of a New Guinea Resident Magistrate (1921)
• Further Adventures of a New Guinea Resident Magistrate (192?)

A W Murray

• Forty Years' Mission Work in Polynesia and New Guinea 1835-1875 (1876)

W P Nairne

• Greatheart of Papua (Biography of James Chalmers) (1913)

C G Rawling

• The Land of the New Guinea Pygmies (1913)

William Robson

• James Chalmers (19?)

Peter Scratchley

• Australian Defences and New Guinea (1887)

Charles G Seligmann

• The Melanesians of British New Guinea (1910)

Louis Tregance

• Adventures in New Guinea (1894)

Maps

Hammond's map of Australia and New Guinea,
showing British and German annexations.
Published 1885.

Papua or British New Guinea c.1887