In Papua New Guinea

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Title: In Papua New Guinea
Author: Christina Dodwell
Publisher: Picador
Year: 1983/1985
Country: Papua New Guinea
256 pages

Like Rita Golden Gelman,  the author of Tales of a Female Nomad, Christina Dodwell is some combination of adventurous, naive, lucky, and skillful. This narrative of her two years in Papua New Guinea provide evidence for all of these interpretations. I enjoyed Dodwell's descriptions and musings and have a much better on-the-ground sense of the country than I often have after reading travel memoirs. On the other hand, I was more consistently alarmed than usual. It might have helped to have a better sense of Dodwell's thoughts and emotions, but this is the least revealed aspect of the book.