The famous Russian traveler and ethnographer Nikolai Nikolaevich Miklouho-Maclay (1846-1888) revealed to the civilized world the unique nature of New Guinea and the exotic culture of the aborigines who inhabited it. In his diaries, he spoke about life and adventures among the wild tribes of the Maclay Coast, so named during the explorer’s lifetime. Now planes of tourist airlines fly to those places, but the first to descend the ramp to the shore of the mysterious “Papuasia” was a Russian explorer and naturalist. In the year of the 150th anniversary of his birth, Miklouho-Maclay was named a UNESCO Citizen of the World. The Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology of the Russian Academy of Sciences bears his name. Miklouho-Maclay's birthday is a professional holiday for ethnographers. Miklouho-Maclay set off on his journey to the times when Enlightened Europeans made stuffed images of the natives (“wild”) for ethnographic purposes. It’s hard to believe, but a little over a century ago it was not at all obvious to most representatives of the white race that Hottentots, Indians, and Papuans are people. Leo Tolstoy, having familiarized himself with the works of Maclay, wrote to him: “You were the first to undoubtedly prove by experience that man everywhere there is a person, that is, a kind, sociable being, with whom one can and should enter into communication only with goodness and truth, and not with guns and vodka. <...> all your collections and all scientific observations are nothing in comparison with the observation about the properties of man that you made by settling among the wild and entering into communication with them <...> set out in the greatest detail and with the strict truthfulness characteristic of you all your relationships person to person in which you entered with people there. I don’t know what contribution your collections and discoveries will make to the science that you serve, but your experience of communicating with the wild will constitute an era in the science that I serve - in the science of how people can live with each other. Write this story and you will have done a great and good service to humanity. If I were you, I would describe in detail all my adventures, setting aside everything except relationships with people.” Miklouho-Maclay lived only 42 years, but during this time he traveled half the globe, spent several years in the malarial jungles of “Papuasia,” wrote a hundred scientific articles and a thousand pages of diaries, made hundreds of sketches of the daily life of the aborigines, collected excellent ethnographic collections, and even stopped several bloody wars between cannibals. They wanted to eat him, but Luckily for us, we decided to first take a closer look at the exotic “Tamo Rus”. And when they got to know him better, they called him “a man of one word” - because he could be trusted like no one else on Earth. His diaries are almost a century and a half old. Take a look at them and you will understand what real exoticism is. Some say: man is a wolf to man. Others are a friend, comrade and brother. Maclay knew: man is a guest to man. The electronic publication of N. N. Miklouho-Maclay’s book includes the full text of the paper book and part of the illustrative material. But for true connoisseurs of exclusive publications, we offer a gift classic book with exceptional richness of illustrations, most of which were made by the author himself. The book is equipped with extensive comments, explanations of exotic geographical realities; It has beautiful printing and white offset paper. This edition, like all the books in the “Great Travels” series, will adorn any, even the most sophisticated library, and will be a wonderful gift for both young readers and discerning bibliophiles.