Papua New Guinea Sojourn: More Pleasures in Exile

by E.A. Markham

In this absorbing book -- part documentary, part travelogue -- West Indian writer and adventurer Archie Markham evokes in rich detail what it was like to be a Media Co-ordinator in the highlands of New Guinea for two years in the 1980s. Life is never dull: an eclipse of the sun, visits from the Pope and the Prince of Wales, negotiations with aggrieved warriors in the wake of politicaml emergency, along with the smaller day-to-day crises of cultural...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1857543289
• ISBN13: 9781857543285
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Carcanet Press
• Length: 240 Pages