Preface: Tok i go pas; Introduction; A Serpent on Our Lawn; Adding a Guest Wing; Tarred-Paper Houses; A Teddy Bears Picnic?; Single in Moresby; Government House Aide; Where s the Jungle?; A Heavenly Bird of Paradise; Mixed Messages; Marriage to an Officer and a Gentleman; The Gift; A Rushed Arrival; An Arranged Marriage; Hospital Sinabada; Mrs Osi to the Rescue; Cars and Cultural Clashes; Moem s Brown Owl; The Hagen Show; Clive s Game; Yangpela Misis; Earthquakes and Farewells; Life in a Shoe Box; All Sewn Up; Teaching in Paradise; A Year of Independence; Misis bilong mi.
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An anthology of the experiences of army wives who accompanied their husbands on postings to Papua New Guinea in the decades prior to independence in 1975.
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