In the years before Papua New Guinea became independent, Michael O'Connor was for nine years a district administrator - a kiap - in remote parts of one of the planet's most forbidding environments. His is a story not only of the extension of law and order and the development of representative government but also of the experience of his young family in a fascinating world. It is a story of life that lacked any kind of modern facilities in isolated areas where travel was mostly on foot through mosquito-ridden swamps to freezing mountain ridges. Above all, it is a story of a people whose material poverty was overlaid with their friendship and good humor.
- ISBN:
- 9781921509186
- 9781921509186
- Category:
- Biography: general
- Format:
- Paperback
- Publication Date:
- 01-02-2010
- Publisher:
- Australian Scholarly Publishing Pty, Limited
- Country of origin:
- Australia
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