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Travels in Papua New Guinea
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Travels in Papua New Guinea Paperback - 2005

by Christina Dodwell

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This is the story of a young Englishwoman who set out to travel alone through the highlands, jungles and rivers of Papua New Guinea. It is the remarkable tale of a two-year expedition which included an eventful two-week walk and a thousand-mile journey on a stallion (in a country where almost nobody knew what a horse was) during which Christina witnessed a tribal fight with bows and arrows and a pig-killing celebration. She was accosted by bandits, sank into swamps, fell through rotten bridges and got stuck in a ravine. For the fourth stage of Christina's journey she bought a dugout canoe and spent four months paddling alone on the Sepik River and its tributaries. She met Stone-Age tribes and ventured through swamp forests; she spent four days with a team of crocodile-hunters and learned how to skin the animals; she was arrested as a spy and experienced an earthquake. In a remote village on the Blackwater tributary she arrived during preparations for the initiation of some boys into manhood. She stayed during a week of celebrations leading up to the boys' initiation, which took place in the spirit-house and included a bloody skin-cutting ritual dedicated to crocodiles. Christina's journeys around this remarkable country have become legends which endure to this day.

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  • Title Travels in Papua New Guinea
  • Author Christina Dodwell
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 280
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Long Riders' Guild Press
  • Publication date November 28, 2005
  • ISBN 9781590481554 / 1590481550
  • Weight 0.79 lbs (0.36 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.63 in (21.59 x 13.97 x 1.60 cm)
  • Category Biography / Autobiography
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

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Travels in Papua New Guinea

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