Book Details
Title: Patrol into Yesterday; My New Guinea Years
Author: J.K. McCarthy
Illustrator: N/A
Publisher: F.W. Cheshire Pty Ltd
Year: 1963
Impression/Edition: N/A
Cover: Hardcover with Dust Jacket
Pages: 250
Dimensions:
Weight:
ISBN: N/A
Battle Scars:
Overall acceptable/poor condition. Ex-Library copy, various repairs appear to have been made over the years.
Outside:
The dust jacket is whole but damaged, with tears, edge rubbing and a large piece removed as pictured. It has been housed in a plastic sleeve, which has helped preserve it somewhat. There appears to have been water damage at one time and the staining is evident on the underside. Also some foxing on the underside. Sticky tape has once held the jacket in place and whilst no longer does the job, is still present. There is a name plate on the back indicating this copy was once held in the Australian Red Cross Hospital Library Service.
The hardcover is intact with shelf wear (rubbing) to edges, ends and corners as pictured. The aforementioned water damage has marked/stained and discoloured the outside boards. The embossing on the spine and front is intact and legible.
The page margins (seen when book is closed) are yellowed with intermittent staining.
Inside:
The binding is firm and intact.
Inside the front and back covers is stained by the sticky tape that was holding the dust jacket in place and this staining persists for several pages front and back. The back-end page is torn with a piece removed as pictured. There is a torn book-seller's sticker on the inside of the front cover.
The pages are tanned throughout. There is intermittent staining, library stamping/paraphernalia, and water marking throughout. A couple of pages are torn. Despite all this, it appears all the pages are present and none are loose.
Don't forget to check the photos below for a visual and make sure you are happy prior to purchase. Happy to answer questions if there is information missing.
Book Content:
Blurb -
"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.
J.K. McCarthy, now Director of the Department of Native Affairs and a member of the Papua-New Guinea Legislative Council, joined the New Guinea Administration as a Patrol Officer in 1927. He led patrol after patrol into unknown parts of the vast island, often being the first white man the inhabitants had seen. He survived arrow attacks on many occasions as he and his men opened up new country and brought peace to violent, treacherous tribes.
When the war came, he was one of the many New Guinea men who remained in the country they knew best, using their knowledge and skills to help throw the Japanese back. As a Coastwatcher behind enemy lines on New Britain he led to safety several hundred Australian troops trapped by the fall of Rabaul. For his wartime exploits he was awarded the M.B.E. and a U.S. citation.
Today, he continues to use his vast personal experience of New Guinea to help its people achieve their eventual goal - the right of self-determination.
This book is as relevant to the present as it is entertaining; it is the most important account of New Guinea to be published since Australia assumed trusteeship."
Book Details
Title: Patrol into Yesterday; My New Guinea Years
Author: J.K. McCarthy
Illustrator: N/A
Publisher: F.W. Cheshire Pty Ltd
Year: 1963
Impression/Edition: N/A
Cover: Hardcover with Dust Jacket
Pages: 250
Dimensions:
Weight:
ISBN: N/A
Battle Scars:
Overall acceptable/poor condition. Ex-Library copy, various repairs appear to have been made over the years.
Outside:
The dust jacket is whole but damaged, with tears, edge rubbing and a large piece removed as pictured. It has been housed in a plastic sleeve, which has helped preserve it somewhat. There appears to have been water damage at one time and the staining is evident on the underside. Also some foxing on the underside. Sticky tape has once held the jacket in place and whilst no longer does the job, is still present. There is a name plate on the back indicating this copy was once held in the Australian Red Cross Hospital Library Service.
The hardcover is intact with shelf wear (rubbing) to edges, ends and corners as pictured. The aforementioned water damage has marked/stained and discoloured the outside boards. The embossing on the spine and front is intact and legible.
The page margins (seen when book is closed) are yellowed with intermittent staining.
Inside:
The binding is firm and intact.
Inside the front and back covers is stained by the sticky tape that was holding the dust jacket in place and this staining persists for several pages front and back. The back-end page is torn with a piece removed as pictured. There is a torn book-seller's sticker on the inside of the front cover.
The pages are tanned throughout. There is intermittent staining, library stamping/paraphernalia, and water marking throughout. A couple of pages are torn. Despite all this, it appears all the pages are present and none are loose.
Don't forget to check the photos below for a visual and make sure you are happy prior to purchase. Happy to answer questions if there is information missing.
Book Content:
Blurb -
"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.
J.K. McCarthy, now Director of the Department of Native Affairs and a member of the Papua-New Guinea Legislative Council, joined the New Guinea Administration as a Patrol Officer in 1927. He led patrol after patrol into unknown parts of the vast island, often being the first white man the inhabitants had seen. He survived arrow attacks on many occasions as he and his men opened up new country and brought peace to violent, treacherous tribes.
When the war came, he was one of the many New Guinea men who remained in the country they knew best, using their knowledge and skills to help throw the Japanese back. As a Coastwatcher behind enemy lines on New Britain he led to safety several hundred Australian troops trapped by the fall of Rabaul. For his wartime exploits he was awarded the M.B.E. and a U.S. citation.
Today, he continues to use his vast personal experience of New Guinea to help its people achieve their eventual goal - the right of self-determination.
This book is as relevant to the present as it is entertaining; it is the most important account of New Guinea to be published since Australia assumed trusteeship."
