The Sky Travellers: Journeys in New Guinea 1938–1939 (Miegunyah Press S) - Softcover
Synopsis
The Sky Travellers is the story of an extraordinary journey of exploration - three thousand kilometres by foot, from March 1938 to June 1939, through the formidable mountains of the western highlands of Papua New Guinea. The Hagen-Sepik Patrol was Australia's last great exploring expedition, and it marked the end of 450 years of European land exploration worldwide. It mapped and described unknown country, made first contact with many Highlands peoples, established outposts including Mount Hagen and found a major goldfield.
Highlanders remember wondering who these strange visitors were. Pale skin suggested that they were spirits - sky people. How should they be treated? Local people repeatedly asked New Guinea's perpetual question, 'Why have you come?
Over 350 people were on the patrol. Most were carriers from Highlands areas already familiar to Europeans. About forty New Guinean police came from distant coastal places. Jim Taylor led the expedition, accompanied by two other Australians, John Black and Pat Walsh.
Many of the people who made the journey, and many of the Highlanders who saw white men for the first time, lived long enough to tell their story directly.
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About the Author
After many years teaching history at the universities of Papua New Guinea and Adelaide, Bill Gammage is now a Senior Research Fellow at the Australian National University.
Review
'deserves to become a classic of post-colonial literature . . . Gammage has taken a genre - the adventure story of exploration - and transformed it by revealing subtly, step by step, the intricacies of encounter. He takes the reader deeper than any writer I know . . . into the relationships between intruders and locals.' -- Emeritus Professor Ken Inglis, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University
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- PublisherMelbourne University Press
- Publication date1994
- ISBN 10 0522848273
- ISBN 13 9780522848274
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages312
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