Book 1 – From Sydney To Simbu…A Well-Travelled Track
From Sydney To Simbu…A Well-Travelled Track. From Sydney to Simbu takes us back to the earliest memories, from family and growing up in Sydney and later a confusing adolescence in New Guinea.
It’s a wild ride from the coast to the highlands, an expose of life for expatriates before Independence.
Chapter 1: Creativity unleashed
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Chapter 2: My very first commission
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Chapter 3: Playmates
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Chapter 4: An uplifting wedding
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Chapter 5: The paper boy
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Chapter 6: Primary exposure
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Chapter 7: Is this paradise?
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Chapter 8: A new life
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Chapter 9: Getting of wisdom
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Chapter 10: Skin in the game
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WatchChapter 11: The big smoke
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Chapter 12: The art school adventure begins
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Chapter 13: Snakes alive!
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Chapter 14: Unrequited love
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Chapter 15: Strolling into Papua
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Chapter 16: Honouring the dead
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Chapter 17: Stony broke
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Chapter 18: Death adder quest
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Chapter 19: Pepper and Mudmen
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WatchBONUS: The Sky Above, the Mud Below (1961) 90 minutes
In 1959, six Europeans embarked on a seventh-month expedition across Dutch New Guinea, meeting local villagers and fighting off leeches and malaria.