Patrol Into Yesterday

My New Guinea Years

by J. K. McCarthy

F. W. Cheshire Publishing, 1967, black and white photographic plates, illustrated endpapers (maps), two-page illustrated title page, hardcover with gilded decoration on front, dustjacket

Very Good Condition, a little edge and shelf wear, a little rubbing and bumping to edges and corners, no inscriptions, price-clipped dustjacket shows some edge and shelf wear with some rubbing, bumping, chipping, tears, creasing and small parts missing (see photographs)

“Here is the story of New Guinea, as seen by a man who has been part of its history for just on forty years.  It presents a fascinating, vivid, unique panorama of life in the big, rugged island to the north of Australia.  It tells of the barbaric customs of its more primitive people, of their beliefs in the supernatural world of devils and spirits, and of their methods of sorcery and of waging war.  But more than that, it portrays New Guinea’s gradual transition from savagery to civilization, and the men, black and white, who have been creating the modern New Guinea through years of hardship, tragedy, a Pacific war and its aftermath.”