TALES OF TRAVEL
THE RESTLESS VOYAGE, by Stanley D. Porteous; Harrap. English price, 10/6. SIX-LEGGED SNAKES IN NEW GUINEA, by Evelyn Cheesman; Harrap, English price, 12/6. THE NEW CONGO, by Tom Marvel; Macdonald. English price, 15/-. [HE Voyages of Captain Cook were i" an inspiration to many an adventurous youth in the early 19th Century, and they filled Archibald Campbell, a Paisley weaver, with a longing to journey to the romantic Sandwich Isles. He endured much before he reached his goal, including illegal impressment into the Navy, flogging, and shipwreck in the Aleutian Islands. When he reached Hawaii his strength of character and talents as a weaver made him a favourite with the island’s ruler, King Tamaahmaah, and he eventually returned to Scotland, where his story was printed, in edited form/ under the title A Voyage Round the World from 1806 to 1812. The Restless Voyage is a re-telling of this tale. It is not history, nor is it strictly biography. The author has modernised the
style and rounded out the story with additional incidents he has discovered about Campbell’s life. The result is an exciting narrative, picaresque in tone, which reveals incidentally something about maritime conditions in those days, and the customs of the early Polynesians. Evelyn Cheesman visited both Dutch and Australian New Guinea during 1939 and early 1940 to collect specimens for. a South Australian museum. She was primarily.interested in insects, but she had encounters also with crocodiles, tree kangaroos, geckos, paradise birds, flying aquirrels, turtles, and even (at Hollandia) with a couple of Japanese spies. Six-Legged Snakes in New Guinea is a matter-of-fact and often amusing account of her day-to-day experiences, with much valuable commentary on the anthropological peculiarities of the tribes who assisted her in her research. The Belgian Congo is of interest because of its immense uranium deposits and because of the enlightened attitude of today’s white colonisers to the Negroes. Thke New Congo is a topical study, with maps and photographs, of its history, industriat potential, and administration, based on a recent visit to the territory.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 22, Issue 550, 6 January 1950, Page 13
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345TALES OF TRAVEL New Zealand Listener, Volume 22, Issue 550, 6 January 1950, Page 13
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