Description
Pacific Press Publishing Association, Published 1968. Hardcover, 116 pp.; 26 cm; illustrated with color and black-and-white photographs by the author, many full-page; map of New Guinea on endpapers.
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In Very Good condition, no dust jacket, as issued. Pictorial paper over boards (Highlands warriors in bird-of-paradise headdresses, wrapping front, spine and rear cover) with mild shelf and edge wear and a hint of fading to spine. Binding tight. Small residue of pencilled price on front free endpaper; pages otherwise clean and unmarked. Photographic account of Seventh-day Adventist medical and mission work in Australian-administered Papua and New Guinea in the 1960s, by the Australian photographer and filmmaker Eric Were (1914-1997). Were flew with missionary-pilots Len Barnard, the church's first mission pilot, and Colin Winch from Highlands airstrips such as Laiagam and Lake Kopiago, and travelled the Sepik River with nurses aboard the mission houseboat Pathfinder. Photographs show Mount Hagen dancers in full regalia, Highlands villages and stockades, open-air clinics, infant immunization, cooperative markets and mission launches. Were first photographed New Guinea in 1946 while working on a gold-mining project in the Upper Ramu; he later produced films for the church in more than seventy countries, including Cry of New Guinea. Contents: Introduction; Wings Over the Jungle; The Land That Time Forgot; Out of the Shadows; Men of the Wilderness; Operation New Life; Angels of the River; Winds of Change; Epilogue.