Man, Edward Horace.
The Nicobar Islands and Their People.
Printed and published for the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland by Billing and Sons Ltd., Guildford, n.d. [1932].
First edition. 8vo. pp. x, 186; 32 photo. illusts., 3 folding maps; slight age-toning to margins, minor spotting at rear, else very good in original green cloth, gilt, small mark to rear cover.
Man (1846-1929) spent most of his working life on the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, where his sympathetic attitude to the inhabitants afforded him close observations of the people and their society. He retired to England in 1901, and died in 1929 without ever publishing a projected monograph concerning the Nicobar Islands. The present work reprints papers Man contributed to various journals, enlarged from his own notes and with the addition of a memoir by David Prain.
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