Author(s): Jack O'Neill, James Sinclair(ed.)

Pacific Islands | Secondhand

Secondhand.

The author tells of prospecting for gold in New Guinea in the 1930s. He prospected at Edie Creek, Wau and Waria and spent much of time on Nauti Creek on the very edge of the forbidden territory of the Kukukuku, a tribe with a bloody history and well-earned reputation for ferocity.

Jack O'Neill was a brave and a sensitive man. His spirit of adventure led him into considerable danger, yet he admired and respected the dignity of the tribesmen of the Central Highlands. Nor did the rigours of frontier life prevent him from responding to the rugged splendour of the New Guinea highlands. His story is a unique record of the conditions under which the prospectors lived and worked, their comradeship and their rivalries, as they penetrated deeper into an untamed land in their search for gold.

-Taken from blurb.

A sound and clean copy.