Four Corners: A Journey into the Heart of Papua New Guinea
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A book about travelling across Papua New Guinea, perfect for the Olympic Challenge.
A young American woman not really sure about what she is travelling for, only that she needs to do it. There are things she has left behind: her course, her boyfriend, and things she hasn't or can't: her experiences in Mozambique and her past. Travelling through an island that was split in two when the Indonesian's invaded, Kira visits a refugee camp which opens her eyes to what the rest of the world seems not to have noticed. Her foreign points of contact are the various missionaries, people working for companies and a few tourists. She travels around, by canoe, on foot and in minibuses, always the outsider, the Wait Meri. It is sad to see how the New Guineans are being "modernised" with no regard to their past or whether they even want to be. The missionary collecting up the traditional tools so he can replace them with metal ones just horrified me.
To be added to an Oceania and Islands box.
Read as part of Librarything's 999 Challenge - Travel Category
See here for my 999 Challenge list
A young American woman not really sure about what she is travelling for, only that she needs to do it. There are things she has left behind: her course, her boyfriend, and things she hasn't or can't: her experiences in Mozambique and her past. Travelling through an island that was split in two when the Indonesian's invaded, Kira visits a refugee camp which opens her eyes to what the rest of the world seems not to have noticed. Her foreign points of contact are the various missionaries, people working for companies and a few tourists. She travels around, by canoe, on foot and in minibuses, always the outsider, the Wait Meri. It is sad to see how the New Guineans are being "modernised" with no regard to their past or whether they even want to be. The missionary collecting up the traditional tools so he can replace them with metal ones just horrified me.
To be added to an Oceania and Islands box.
Read as part of Librarything's 999 Challenge - Travel Category
See here for my 999 Challenge list
Journal Entry 2 by soffitta1 at Soffitta1's 6th Bookbox (Oceania , To the next participant. -- Controlled Releases on Saturday, August 15, 2009
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Journal Entry 3 by 
Cross-patch
from Leicester, Leicestershire United Kingdom on Friday, September 4, 2009
Cross-patch from Leicester, Leicestershire United Kingdom on Friday, September 4, 2009
Taken from Soffitta1's 6th Bookbox (Oceania and Islands).
