Journeys to the Past : Travels in New Guinea, Madagascar and the Northern Territory of Australia

Every year for a decade, between 195 4 and 1964 , it was my great luck to go to the tropics and make natural history films. Initially , our expeditions were organized jointly by BBC Television and the London Zoo and our aim was not only to film animals but to catch some of them. The television programmes, in consequence, were given the overall name of Zo o Qu est. Very sadly, however, ill health prevented the Zoo's representative, Jack Lester, from taking part in the third trip. Thereafter, the Zoo's involvement was reduced to receiving such creatures as those of us from television managed to bring back. Filming animals in the wild, rather than capturing them, therefore, became our first priority. As time passed our interests also broadened and the tribal people we met on our journeys began to figure with increasingprominence in the films, so the name Zoo Quest seemed inappropriate as the title of this volume. The first three books I wrote about these journeys were republished, in a slightly shortened form, in one volume in 1980.
Here are the second three.