Papua New Guinea

Four Corners: A Journey into the Heart of Papua New Guinea, by Kira Salak (2004). Salak, who is a National Geographic Society Emerging Explorer, ventures through Papua New Guinea by canoe and on foot to create this insider's look at a culturally and historically rich land. Her travels lead her into an exhilarating trek through the jungle and a conversation with the leader of a separatist guerrilla movement opposing the Indonesian occupation of Western New Guinea.

*Where Masks Still Dance: New Guinea, by Chris Rainier (1996). Over the course of ten years, photographer Chris Rainier documented the aboriginal tribes of Papua New Guinea and Irian Jaya in hauntingly black-and-white images. In short essays, he recounts the adventures behind the photographs and explores the influence of modern technology on these indigenous people.