Primitive Intelligence and Environment.

PORTEUS, S.D.:

64708 New York, Macmillan, 1937. Octavo, x, 325 pages. Cloth slightly rubbed; top edge lightly foxed; endpapers offset; an excellent copy with the gold dustwrapper slightly marked, rubbed, chipped, creased and torn with slight loss. Inscribed and signed by the author 'To Pastor Scherer / Finke River Mission'. The book, 'though a narrative of travel, depicts accurately the habitats of the Bushmen and Australians. It includes not only comparative data on their mentality and that of the Bantu tribes, but also the results of work done among the Negrito people of Malaya, the Ainu of Japan, and the sea gypsies of Borneo'. $150.00AUD
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