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Meeting George Orwell.(Ryan)
NOT LONG TURNED EIGHTEEN, I set off for the wars in New Guinea with a square, mysterious object poking its corners against the canvas at the bottom of my kitbag. (That's the soldier's capacious sausage-bag, not his back-pack.) Of all the improbable and impractical things to lug away campaigning, this awkward shape represented two fat books: a collection of the poems of John Masefield, and a gathering of the verses of Robert Service called Songs of a Sourdough.
Masefield, Poet Laureate for nearly forty years, lived long enough to write about Gallipoli in the Great War, and then about the Dunkirk evacuation in the Second World War. Though less widely esteemed today, ...
- The Unseen City: Anthropological Perspectives on Port Moresby, Papua New...
- Magazine article from: The Contemporary Pacific Barber, Keith September 22, 2006 700+ words
...City: Anthropological Perspectives on Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, by Michael Goddard...collection of essays is the part of Port Moresby that remains out of sight for most non...Contrary to stereotypical portrayals of Port Moresby as the site of crime and corruption...
- Sydney more dangerous than Port Moresby.
- News wire article from: PAC - Pacific Islands Broadcasting Association April 2, 2009 700+ words
02 APRIL 2009 PORT MORESBY (Pacnews) ----- Papua New Guineas (PNG) capital Port Moresby is not one of the most dangerous cities...parliament that although Australia publicised Port Moresby to be one of the most dangerous cities and...
- Fed: Six crash victims now in Port Moresby for identification
- Newspaper article from: AAP General News (Australia) August 14, 2009 700+ words
...2009 Fed: Six crash victims now in Port Moresby for identification By Sandra O'Malley...Guinea plane crash have been flown to Port Moresby, where the process of identification...so far been recovered and returned to Port Moresby. "Six bodies have been retrieved and...
- The Bugiau community at eight-mile: an urban settlement in Port Moresby, Papua...
- Magazine article from: Oceania Barber, Keith June 1, 2003 700+ words
...urban villages and squatter areas in Port Moresby, stated that 'Contrary to popular...squatters are parasitic on the Port Moresby community in general'. More recently...1993) studies of Toaripi migrants in Port Moresby provide some information on their settlement...
- Port Moresby nurses defy return-to-work order.
- News wire article from: PAC - Pacific Islands Broadcasting Association December 28, 2005 700+ words
28 DECEMBER 2005 PORT MORESBY (Pacnews) ---Nurses at Papua New Guinea's Port Moresby General Hospital have defied an order to...president Lawrence Namarro said nurses in Port Moresby have not returned to work despite the circular...
- PORT MORESBY AIR SAFETY CONTRACTOR PULLS OUT: MINISTER.
- News wire article from: AsiaPulse News April 12, 2000 700+ words
PORT MORESBY, April 12 Asia Pulse - The lives of the travelling public were at risk at Port Moresby's Jacksons International Airport because...power blackouts, which are common in Port Moresby. Philemon confirmed today that Simtec...
- Port Moresby one of the worst TB infected cities in world.
- News wire article from: PAC - Pacific Islands Broadcasting Association March 25, 2004 700+ words
25 MARCH 2004 PORT MORESBY (Pacnews) --- Port Moresby and Lae are riddled with tuberculosis (TB) and anyone...24 Mar) when speaking to over 100 people gathered in Port Moresby to mark World TB Day. The two urged everyone to co...
- Port Moresby 'language capital of the world'.
- News wire article from: PAC - Pacific Islands Broadcasting Association September 27, 2005 700+ words
27 SEPTEMBER 2005 PORT MORESBY (Pacnews) - Papua New Guinea's...Capital District Commission will promote Port Moresby as the language capital of the world. City Manager Peter Loko said with Port Moresby being home to all the ethnic groups...