Walking With Ghosts In Papua New Guinea

Author : Rick Antonson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09-10
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781510705685

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Walking with Ghosts in Papua New Guinea by Rick Antonson Pdf

Acclaimed travel writer Rick Antonson (Full Moon Over Noah’s Ark) tackles his most challenging adventure yet: a formidable trail through the remote jungles of Papua New Guinea. Rick Antonson has traveled to parts of the world that are not simply exotic but sometimes damned near inaccessible. He has climbed to the summit of Mount Ararat in eastern Turkey, traveling beyond to Iraq and Iran and Armenia. He has undertaken an improbable overland journey to the ancient city of Timbuktu, an enlightening look into efforts to preserve the city’s priceless manuscripts. Now he has traversed the notorious Kokoda Trail in Papua New Guinea, a country some call “the last wild place on earth.” The trail is a narrow, 60-mile footpath featuring rough jungle, 6,000 feet in elevation change, and punishing weather extremes. In a country unfairly locked in Western misperceptions, the track is inhospitable terrain yet home to hospitable indigenous peoples, who live among the rusting reminders of the Japanese, Australian, and American armies that clashed in some of the deadliest protracted combat of World War II. In Walking With Ghosts in Papua New Guinea, Antonson shares a journey of physical and mental endurance in his inimitable way, in the company of a mixed band of resolute adventurers, blending fascinating historical context with the tribulations of unexpected discoveries in faraway lands.

Author : Falk Huettmann
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 705 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2023-04-26
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783031202629

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Globalization and Papua New Guinea: Ancient Wilderness, Paradise, Introduced Terror and Hell by Falk Huettmann Pdf

This book aims to present a reality view for Papua New Guinea based on many years of first-hand field work and research accounts. It further assesses sustainability in the light of 47,000 years of a self-sustained type of civilization without bad global impacts. This book contrasts the modern sustainable development failures from the colonial times onwards, as promoted by the ‘western world’, namely Australia, the UK, EU and the U.S as well as Japan and now, China, in times of globalization, Trump’ism and royal governance (Papua New Guinea is still part of the British Dominion and of the Antarctic Treaty etc). This assessment and book is the first of its kind also employing modern data analysis, Landscape Ecology principles (patterns and processes, telecoupling) and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) with Open Access data focusing on ecological economics, marxism, socialism and contrasting it with current capitalism and neoliberalism that Papua New Guinea is fully exposed to. Throughout the 31 book chapters various aspects are covered how a further insistence on the ‘new’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and so-called Development Aid will result in unwanted side effects and perverse outcomes for Papua New Guinea and for the world in times of wider ‘global change’ and unprecedented man-made crisis.

Author : Rick Antonson
Publisher : Greystone Books Ltd
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2023-04-18
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781771644884

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Train Beyond the Mountains by Rick Antonson Pdf

A captivating journey blending memoir, history, and biography that takes the reader on one of the world's most famous trains and tells of carving the dramatic route it follows, while pondering other international railways through the eyes of travellers past and present. Rick Antonson has ridden trains in more than thirty-five countries—but almost everything he thinks he knows about train travel changes when he boards the Rocky Mountaineer with his ten-year-old grandson, Riley. As they wind over trestles and through tunnels, each mile of track uncovers stories of dynamite and discovery, surveyors and schemers, explorers and visionaries, and the people who helped to build Canada against the odds of geography and politics. Surrounded by a wild landscape that sparks imagination, fellow passengers recount train travels in other countries, get nostalgic for the era of steam locomotives, and consider life’s unfinished journeys. Peppered with spirited dialogue, heartrending vignettes, and intriguing anecdotes, Train Beyond the Mountains is a travelogue with urgency: to make your travel dreams happen now. As one passenger muses, "The mistake we make is that we think we have time."

Author : Thomas H. Slone
Publisher : University of Papua New Guinea Press
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9980939028

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Ghost Stories by Thomas H. Slone Pdf

This book is a collection of folktales ("Stori Tumbuna") from Papua New Guinea that were originally published in Wantok Newspaper starting in 1972. These folktales have been translated into English and are published here side-by-side with the original Tok Pisin stories. This volume is number 3 in this "Folklore of Papua New Guinea Series."

Author : Dave Turnbull
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2021-08-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798545850877

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Walking with Ghosts by Dave Turnbull Pdf

In this book which is only the first part of a story, reaching out to the afterlife, what will unfold ?

Author : Moshe Rapaport
Publisher : Bess Press
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 1573060429

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The Pacific Islands by Moshe Rapaport Pdf

Forty-five contributors offer information on the physical environment, history, culture, population, economy, and living environment of the Pacific islands.

Author : Ryota Nishino
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2022-09-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350139015

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Japanese Perceptions of Papua New Guinea by Ryota Nishino Pdf

Japanese Perceptions of Papua New Guinea exposes the interactions between two ostensibly opposing worlds: war and travel. While soldiers deployed to Eastern New Guinea during the Second World War recalled first-hand their experience of war, post-war tourists visited battle-sites, met locals, and drew their own conclusions about the Pacific island from the Japanese media. This book, in bringing travel and war closer together through a comparative analysis of veterans' memoirs and the records of postwar travelers, explores how individuals consume, create, and recreate war histories. As a result, Ryota Nishino reveals the extent to which the memory of defeat - for both soldiers and civilians alike - influenced the Japanese perceptions of Papua New Guinea and shaped future relations between the countries. Translating a diverse range of Japanese primary and archival sources, this book provides the first English-language analysis of the social and political impact of Japanese interpretations of the PNG campaign and its aftermath. As such, Japanese Perceptions of Papua New Guinea: War, Travel and the Reimagining of History is an important text for anyone seeking a sophisticated understanding of war, nationalism, and memory culture in Japan and the Pacific Islands.

Author : Brian James Freeman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2021-10-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1941971040

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Walking With Ghosts by Brian James Freeman Pdf

"Freeman's prose is clean and lovely, painting the canvas of the printed page so unobtrusively yet with such pronounced effect. His writing will leave you both chilled and deeply moved." - William Peter Blatty Brian James Freeman's first full-length collection features twenty-nine stories that deal with both real and supernatural terrors. These tales are populated by characters who seek answers to deeply troubling questions. They are haunted by horrors they think are out of their control, but sometimes the source of their greatest fears is closer to home than they ever imagined. As William Peter Blatty notes in his introduction, "Freeman writes like someone who has seen the darkness lurking within the human heart and is compelled to shine a light on our deepest fears. His writing will leave you both chilled and deeply moved." Originally published only as a small print run Limited Edition in the UK, this new edition features revised text and updated story notes by the author.

Author : J. G. Goodhind
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Bath (England)
ISBN : 184751085X

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Walking with Ghosts by J. G. Goodhind Pdf

When hotel owner and police liaison officer Honey Driver accompanies a friend on a ghost walk the ghosts fail to appear, but one of the walkers is later found hanging from the rafters of an old shop. Can Honey solve the case?

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Australian literature
ISBN : STANFORD:36105111277930

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Meanjin by Anonim Pdf

Author : Barbara Smith
Publisher : TouchWood Editions
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-30
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781771512800

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Great Canadian Ghost Stories by Barbara Smith Pdf

A compelling collection of iconic ghost stories from all across Canada. Time and place are infused with ghosts and hauntings. From coast to coast to coast, Canada’s provinces and territories teem with the supernatural—phantoms obscured in the mists of time, spectres that delight in wreaking terror, and spirits destined to linger forever at the edge of the veil. Visit the far-flung corners of Canada to discover the folklore and legends behind: the ghost of a Newfoundland outlaw that leads blizzard-blind men to safety A poltergeist infestation that gleefully tortured an entire Nova Scotia family A fleet of phantom ships that haunt the coastline of New Brunswick the haggard spectre of a murderous witch in historic Quebec City Saskatchewan’s ghost-ridden military cadet academy an Alberta cabbie’s encounter with a silent shadow of a man in black the headless railway brakeman of Vancouver a moaning, man-shaped mist that haunts a Yukon cabin From east to west to way up north, bestselling author and renowned storyteller Barbara Smith traverses Canada’s provinces and territories to unearth more than 100 supernatural tales that careen between heartwarming, horrifying, sorrowful, and spine-chilling.

Author : Marilyn Strathern
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1992-03-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0521426804

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After Nature by Marilyn Strathern Pdf

After Nature is a timely account of fundamental constructs in English kinship at a moment when advances in reproductive technologies are raising questions about the natural basis of kinship relations.

Author : Ross Bolleter
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2018-07-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781614293132

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The Crow Flies Backwards and Other New Zen Koans by Ross Bolleter Pdf

Discover how the mysterious, powerful form of the koan—known for bringing about sudden enlightenment—can disrupt and illuminate your everyday understanding of life. Traditionally, Zen koans—the teaching stories of Zen—are drawn from the words and teachings of ancient masters and primarily address the concerns of (male) monastic practitioners. In The Crow Flies Backward, Ross Bolleter changes all at. The 108 modern koans offered within address sexuality and childbirth, family, parenthood, work, money and even the nature time itself. These koans are drawn from a variety of modern sources: Western philosophy, the Bible, contemporary and classic literature from Proust to Lewis Carroll and Mary Oliver and Anne Carson, as well as stories provided by author’s encounters with his Zen students. Bolleter’s commentaries provide guidance to the reader on how to engage with each koan and koans in general, and direct guidance to meditate with koans. An appendix offers rarely-seen intimate and in-depth accounts of the process of koan introspection, from four of the author’s senior students.

Author : Alan J. Laing
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 099546233X

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Walking with Ghosts by Alan J. Laing Pdf

Author : Greg P Mansfield
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798695735109

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Ghosts of Vancouver by Greg P Mansfield Pdf

Tales of true hauntings from Vancouver, British Columbia, including the ghosts of Gastown and such well-known places as Hycroft Manor, Hotel Vancouver, and the Vogue Theatre. Maybe it's the rainy weather. Perhaps it's because its history is rich in colourful characters who ran ramshackle saloons and busy brothels. Or maybe it's because the locals just don't want to leave this beautiful city. Whatever the reason, Vancouver has its fair share of ghostly inhabitants. In the latest edition of this collection of spine-chilling stories, 39 haunted locations are featured. In these pages, you'll encounter: The lady in white who terrifies security guards in an old office building The spirit of a trolley-car conductor who startles restaurant patrons The ghostly chef who hangs out near the bar in one of the city's oldest pubs The phantom of a rail worker who eternally searches for his lost head A spectral soldier who plays bagpipes in an old armoury The lady in red who glides through elevator doors and greets hotel guests The restless spirits of a former native burial ground Theatre ghosts who appear on stage and in the audience Phantom firefighters who haunt a modern firehall The ghost of a hotel caretaker who plays pranks on the unsuspecting And more! The original and best book about the haunted places of Vancouver, B.C. Photographs, maps, and suggestions are included to help you explore many of the haunted places of downtown Vancouver.