Editor’s preface
Translator’s preface
‘The German professor’: Richard Parkinson
Author’s foreword
Editor’s foreword

New Britain with the French islands and the Duke of Yorks

New Ireland, New Hanover and their offshore islands

St Matthias and the neighbouring islands

The Admiralty Islands

The western islands

The German Solomon Islands, together with Nissan and the Carteret Islands

The eastern islands (Nuguria, Tauu and Nukumanu)

Secret societies, totemism, masks and mask dances

Stories and fables

Languages

Cultigens and useful plants, domesticated and hunted animals

History of discovery

Index

Originally published in 1907, Thirty Years in the South Seas collects Parkinson's landmark ethnography of the Bismarck Archipelago.

Richard Parkinson (1844–1909) was a Danish explorer and anthropologist.