Explorations Into Highland New Guinea, 1930-1935

by Michael J. Leahy

Book Overview

In the 1920s and 1930s there were adventures to be lived and fortunes to be made by strong young men in the outback of Australia and the gold fields of New Guinea. This is the diary of five years spent in hot pursuit--not of honor and glory, but of excitement and riches--by one such adventurer, Michael "Mick" Leahy, his brothers Jim and Pat, and friends Mick Dwyer and Jim Taylor. Leahy and his associates explored the unknown interior of New Guinea,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0817304460
• ISBN13: 9780817304461
• Release Date: August 1991
• Publisher: University Alabama Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.1"