The Sky Travellers
Journeys in New Guinea 1938-1939
$54.44
- Paperback
348 pages
- Release Date
9 August 1994
Summary
The world’s last major exploration and experience of first-contact - a 1938-39 Australian expedition of three thousand kilometres by foot, through the mountainous western highlands of Papua New Guinea.
The pale skin of the strangers 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 were carriers from Highlands areas alread…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780522848274 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0522848273 |
| Author: | Gammage, Bill |
| Publisher: | Melbourne University Press |
| Imprint: | The Miegunyah Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 348 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 9 August 1994 |
| Weight: | 896g |
| Dimensions: | 245mm x 175mm x 21mm |
| Series: | Miegunyah Press S. |
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About The Author
Gammage, Bill
Bill Gammage is a Senior Research Fellow at the Australian National University. He previously taught history at the universities of Papua New Guinea and Adelaide. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and Deputy Chair of the National Museum of Australia. Gammage edited Australians- A Bicentennial History and is the author of The Broken Years, an acclaimed history of Australian soldiers in the Great War.
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