Publisher's Synopsis
The vast rolling highlands of Central Papua New Guinea, with their teeming, colourful populations were virtually the last "discovery" left for European exploration to make. But which Europeans got there first? Was it the goldminers in search of a new El Dorado? Missionaries seeking souls for God? Patrol officers of the Australian administration? The web of foreign penetration of the 1920s and 1930s is complex, but this book establishes clearly that the vast "terra nova" was first entered by missionaries.;Robin Radford has drawn upon diverse sources ranging from Lutheran archives in Germany, to pre-war government files from a cellar at Kainantu, and the oral recollections she recorded from men and women of the surrounding villages.;This book is intended for students and researchers in anthropology and the history of European colonization.
