Description
Judith Hollinshed first arrived within the remote Western Highlands of Papua New Guinea wearing two stiffened petticoats and the naive enthusiasm of a young wife. It used to be 1956, pre-independence and the excitement and trials of forging a life in wild and isolated country were an adventure for this Australian.
Set all over a time of bizarre social and political upheaval, this book is an account of the difficulties and dangers she and her husband faced organising a coffee plantation and a home for their two sons at Alimp. Told with humour and honesty, it also provides an insight into the have an effect on of expatriate settlement and the money society at the highlanders’ traditional way of living and the issues encountered by the Australian administration in tackling its mission to bring the fragmented tribes of Papua New Guinea to a state of independent democracy.