0379 | New Guinea Diaries 1871-1883 | Nikolai Nikolaevich Mikloucho-Maclay
Context: Got ourselves some Action Packers in preparation for leaving PNG and carting our life back to the UK while I was reading this. REVIEW I’m nothing short of astounded…
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0333 | Manub & Kilibob:Melanesian Models for Brotherhood | Rufus Pech
Context: Involved in final rehearsals for Cinderella while I finished this off. REVIEW After having had one of the strangest experiences of my life attending meetings of a group of…
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0327 | Mutants – Armand Marie Leroi
Context: Mrs Arukiyomi brought me breakfast in bed the day I finished this one off. What a lovely surprise! REVIEW If you have hang-ups about the fact that you’re a…
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0318 | Last Days in New Guinea | C. A. W. Monckton
Context: Discovered this on the Rare Books shelf in the Branch Library here at Ukarumpa REVIEW A long while ago, I came across a two-volume set in a charity shop….
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0305 | Making ‘Black Harvest’ – Bob Connolly
Context: Blogged this the day that I took part in The Amazing Race (hence the gear) – we came 3rd out of 20 teams. REVIEW On arrival in our current…
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0301 | Wewak Mission – Lionel Veale
Context: While reading this our gutters were so blocked up with pine needles that I had to remove all the downpipes and flush them out with a hose. REVIEW One…
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0298 | 200 Shots – Neil McDonald & Peter Brune
Context: First book I finished off in my new comfy chair, one of our first buys in Ukarumpa. REVIEW A friend here at Ukarumpa lent me this and a couple…
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0289 | Outrageous Grace–Grace Fabian
Context: Wandered through the River Kior a number of times while reading this. REVIEW Subtitled “A Story of Tragedy and Forgiveness” this is about the lives of Grace and her…
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0288 | Before All Else Fails… Read the Instructions–Kevin G. Hovey
Context: While reading this, I twice took this road north from Male to attend cargo cult meetings in Rereu. REVIEW Hovey’s task is to help Christians a) understand a Melanesian…
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0285 | Search for Salvation–John G. Strelan
Context:I read this just days before I came across a cargo cult that it described in the village of Male in Papua New Guinea. REVIEW I would have passed this…
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0283 | In Search of the Source – Neil Anderson
Context: Our source while living in the village was a tarp we rigged at the back of our house to catch rainwater. REVIEW Heard a lot about this book, especially…
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0282 | Death, Witchcraft and the Spirit World in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea – Neville Bartle
Context: the first of many books I read by kerosene lamp while living in a house in a village in Papua New Guinea. REVIEW Forgive me for not posting too…
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0277 | Letub – Rudolf Inselmann
Context: Finished this off on the back of the Dyna on the way into Madang. REVIEW I picked this up off the shelf in the office at the orientation course…
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0266 | Into the Crocodile’s Nest | Benedict Allen
Context: Read this the lovely warm conservatory overlooking our friends’ garden in Flackwell Heath. REVIEW Benedict Allen would, these days, have his own TV series and have put a…
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0247 | Some Experiences of a New Guinea Resident Magistrate – C. A. W. Monckton
Context: put some new strings on my old Eko and then got a blister I played it so much! REVIEW They don’t write books like this anymore. You know when…
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0223 | The Coast Watchers – Eric Feldt
Context: finished this off at the desk where I’m doing my research job downstairs at 77 Field View. REVIEW This book tells the story of the Coast Watchers, a group…
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0218 | The Trobrianders of Papua New Guinea – Annette B. Weiner
Context: Read this in bed on a rainy, rainy autumn day in Bar Hill. REVIEW The Trobriand Islands are a small archipelago just north east of the mainland coast of…
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0217 | The White Man Will Eat You – William F. Wormsley
Context: Finished this off while using a hot water bottle to ease an ache in my hamstring. Too much jogging. REVIEW A good ethnography gives you an inside view into…