The Sky Travellers by Bill Gammage

The Sky Travellers

Journeys in New Guinea 1938-1939

by Bill Gammage

Melbourne University Press, 1998, [First Edition], ISBN 0522848273, black and white photographic plates, fold-out map, hardcover, dustjacket

Very Good Condition, minor edge and shelf wear, minor rubbing and bumping to edges and corners, ex-library with stamps to front endpapers, half-title page and back endpapers, sticker to inside back cover, dustjacket shows minor edge and shelf wear with minor rubbing and bumping to edges and corners (see photographs)

“The Sky Travellers is the story of an extraordinary journey of exploration – three thousand kilometres b foot, form March 1938 to June 1939, through the formidable mountains of the western highlands of Papua New Guinea.  The Hagen-Sepik Patrol was Australia’s last great exploring expedition, and it marked the end of 450 years  of European land exploration worldwide.  It mapped and described unknown country, made first contact with many Highlands peoples, established outposts including Mount Hagen and found a major goldfield.”