The sky travellers
Subtitle: journeys in New Guinea, 1938-1939
By: Bill Gammage.
Publisher: Melbourne University Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Calton, Vic
Language: eng
Number of pages: 292
Subjects: First contact of aboriginal peoples with Westerners -- Papua New Guinea; Papua New Guinea -- Description and travel; Papua New Guinea -- Discovery and exploration -- Australian; Papua New Guinea -- Social life and customs
Description: 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 gret 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 Highland peoples, established outposts, inluding Mount Hagen and found a major goldfield.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 272-283) and indexes.
"Miegunyah Press."