Suggestions from November 20 in all good bookshops ‘Tribe French’, the new story Image adventures of our friends in France Papuans. Picking the best images of the first game, this volume of 288 pages is primarily composed of stories and unseen footage
Michael Somare, Premier Ministre de la Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée
L’ancien premier Ministre surnommé le « père de la Papouasie », Sir Michael Somare Thomas présente mon livre « Le long-long voyage’ (édition Dakota) au cours du premier festival du Moyen Sepik organisé au village de Palembe.
Invited by our reporter, Marc Dozier, two Papuans – Polobi Palia et Mundeya Kepanga – travelled through France during four months. In a way similar to French writer Montesquieu’s Persian Letters, they have an inquisitive, full of wisdom and humour glimpse into our world and its contradictions. A great expedition related in a documentary scheduled for broadcasting in January on the Canal+ channel.
French magazine VSD is publishing an article about the amazing trip of two Papuan born, Polobi Palia and Mundeya Kepanga, have come in order to observe a bizarre tribe: the French. VSD N°1583 – 7 pages – Text and pictures: Marc Dozier
Le magazine Grands Reportages publie en juillet 2007 un numéro « Spécial Terres Oubliées » qui reprend quelques uns des meilleures articles sur les régions isolées du globe publiées au cours des cinq dernières années. Une occasion de lire (ou de relire) mon article sur la Nouvelle-Irlande avec une sélection d’images inédites.
Mundiya Kepanga dans Le long-long voyage
Available today in all French libraries: the book ‘The Long Long voyage’ which relates, in pictures, the first travel in France of our Papuan friends. In a way similar to French writer Montesquieu’s Persian Letters, they have a funny and philosophical glimpse into our world and its contradictions. Unidentified book, this piece is available in all the good bookstores. You can also buy it on this website (go to the Shop section), on www.amazon.fr or www.fnac.com.
Major French weekly magazine Le Figaro publishes today a report on Polobi, Mundeya and Philip KC’s journey in France. The magazine devotes five pages to the three explorers’ adventures. A caustic tale of a an incomparable and unique initiatory voyage during their discovery of France. For sale in your local newsstand during one week.