Kiap – Australia’s Patrol Officers in Papua New Guinea - Jmes Sinclair - First Edition 1981

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Kiap – Australia’s Patrol Officers in Papua New Guinea – Jmes Sinclair – First Edition 1981

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Published by Pacific Publications, Sydney a first edition 1981. Quarto, 294 pages with illustrated end paper and many many images from photographs ... quite afew iconic of the people particularly the KuKuKuKu. A very good copy in a complete and bright dust jacket.

The author James Sinclair is the man , if you understand us. After WWII he too up the position of Cadet Patrol Officer and rose to District Commissioner by Independence in 1975. He was there all through the period with a keen eye a handy camera and an ability and desire to record activities as he and others saw them.

This book is much more than about the Kiap role … it is about the people, the many varied people of this remarkable place on Earth. The photographic record contained within this volume is justification alone.

The Kiaps had their place and surrounded by the people and the environment of Papua New Guinea

Postage will be more than the automatic allowance for this heavy book ... we will absorb that within Australia.

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