New Guinea Days

New Guinea Days is a personal memoir of Michael O’Connor’s life as a kiap - a patrol officer - in Papua New Guinea over 50 years ago. In plain language, he describes the challenging and varied daily work of the kiap: life (with a young and growing family) on godforsaken outstations; the hot, mosquito-ridden swamps of the immense Fly River; the freezing cold of the high central range; the hair-raising hazards of pioneer "bush" aviation; snakes in the house and crocodiles lurking in the streams.