Best of Simpson's New Guinea
p. 91 · Read in the full issue
Colin Simpson’s promised omnibus book on New Guinea became available before Christmas, a period when a lot of people who don’t do so normally, buy and even read books.
THE book will have a demand long after the festive season is over.
It is a combination of large parts of Simpson’s Adam with Arrows, Adam in Plumes and the New Guinea chap ters of Islands of Men. It has been called Plumes and Arrows and like the individual books, all of which have been published in the last seven or eight years, is a riot of colour plates—24 in all.
As the only “popular” works on the Territory, and because of their lavish illustrations, Colin Simpson’s books have always had a ready sale
with visitors to Papua-New Guinea, and with residents also for friends and relatives overseas. They are filled with names, facts and adventure.
The omnibus is sure to be just as well received by those who buy books in this price range. It has numerous line drawings by the author’s wife, Claire; four dozen black and white plates as well as the two dozen col oured ones; and 400 pages of reading matter. (PLUMES AND ARROWS. Angus and Robertson Ltd. 45/-.)