Colin Simpson Will

Revise His New Guinea Books

Such is the continuing demand for books on New Guinea that Angus and Robertson will short ly publish Colin Simpson’s three books on that Territory in one combined and revised volume.

THE books are Adam with Arrows, Adam in Plumes and the New Guinea chapters of Islands of Men.

The new combined edition will bear the title of Plumes and Arrows and will be a big book of 400 pages, plus 24 colour plates and 40 plates in black and white.

“Because the colour plates have already been paid for in the previous editions, the publishers hope the new book will sell for less than £2,” said Mr. Simpson in May, just before he left Sydney on a four-and-a-half months visit to Europe. “The orig inal books were a bit long-winded anyway and cutting won’t do them any harm.”

In Europe Colin Simpson will gather material to revise his Wake Up in Europe, a travel book pub lished a couple of years ago, and he will obtain information for a new book to be called Four Corners of Europe, which will be ready for the Christmas, 1963, market. It will take in Spain, the Scandinavian countries, Russia and Greece, with a side trip to Central Asia.

Meanwhile, he has a new book, Asia’s Bright Balconies, telling of his travels in Hongkong, the Philippines and Macao, being published in Syd ney in June. His only novel, Come Away Pearler is shortly to be issued as a paperback.

“I’m writing my books full time now, and we are making ends meet,” he added.