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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Chapter 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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BONUS: 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.