The Sky Travellers: Journeys in New Guinea, 1938-39 (Miegunyah Press) Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

The Sky Travellers: Journeys in New Guinea, 1938-39 (Miegunyah Press) Book

This is the extraordinary story of the world's last major exploration and probably the last experience of 'first contact' - a journey of three thousand kilometres by foot, during 1938-39, through the mountainous western highlands of Papua New Guinea. The pale skin of the explorers suggested that they were spirits - sky people. How should they be treated? Local people repeatedly asked 'Why have you come?' Jim Taylor, with John Black and Pat Walsh, led a patrol of over 350 people. Most of the group were carriers from Highlands areas already familiar with Europeans; about forty were New Guinea police from the coast. With war looming, records of their remarkable experience were officially suppressed.Read More

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  • 0522848273
  • 9780522848274
  • Bill Gammage
  • 9 August 1994
  • Melbourne University Press
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 312
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