| New Guinea Days: A Tale of Love and Adventure Contributor(s): O'Connor, Michael (Author) |
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ISBN: 192150918X ISBN-13: 9781921509186 Publisher: Australian Scholarly Publishing Pty Limited OUR PRICE: $30.35 Product Type: Paperback Published: March 2014 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Adventurers & Explorers - Social Science |
| Dewey: 363.2 |
| Physical Information: 0.44" H x 6" W x 9" (0.52 lbs) 170 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In the years before Papua New Guinea became independent, Michael O'Connor was for nine years a district administrator - a kiap - in remote parts of one of the planet's most forbidding environments. His is a story not only of the extension of law and order and the development of representative government but also of the experience of his young family in a fascinating world. It is a story of life that lacked any kind of modern facilities in isolated areas where travel was mostly on foot through mosquito-ridden swamps to freezing mountain ridges. Above all, it is a story of a people whose material poverty was overlaid with their friendship and good humor. |