Walking with Ghosts in Papua New Guin..., Rick Antonson
Walking with Ghosts in Papua New Guin..., Rick Antonson
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Walking with Ghosts in Papua New Guinea
Crossing the Kokoda Trail in the Last Wild Place on Earth

Author: Rick Antonson

Narrator: Paul Woodson

Unabridged: 8 hr 34 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 08/17/2021


Synopsis

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, sixty-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.

About Rick Antonson

Rick Antonson is the author of several books, including the travel memoirs Full Moon Over Noah's Ark, Route 66 Still Kicks, and To Timbuktu for a Haircut. Antonson is past chair of Destination International, based in Washington, DC, past deputy chair of the Pacific Asia Travel Association based in Bangkok, and former president and CEO of Tourism Vancouver. He lives in Vancouver, Canada.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Richard on January 24, 2013

The author ticked me off three times in the first four pages. First, the two travelers began this journey only because they couldn't do what they really wanted to do, which was to visit Asia. Route 66 was what they settled for. Second, when the author's notion of a nation is the summation of land +......more

Goodreads review by Bandit on May 19, 2019

Seriously? I’m the first person reviewing this? Read this book. It’s great. It deserves an audience. Some walks are not like the others. This one, the two week trek to traverse the Kokoda trail that bisects Papua New Guinea, is obviously of the more extraordinary nature, due to its exotic setting an......more