# 46198
CHAMPION, Ivan (1904-1989)
Across New Guinea
/ by Ivan Champion. Simplified and abridged by E. P. W. Marriott. Illustrated by Pamela Lindsay ; in association with the South Pacific Commission Literature Bureau. Melbourne : Longmans Green and Co., 1955. First edition. “Bonito series”. Small octavo (182 x 122 mm), publisher’s pictorial wrappers (previous owner’s name, small chip to one corner, bookseller’s label to interior), staple bound, pp 24, with several illustrations by Pamela Lindsay executed with scraperboard and pen and ink; a good, clean copy.
Born in Port Moresby, Ivan Champion (1904-1989) spent most of his career as an Australian public servant in Papua. In 1927-28 he took part in a successful Australian expedition to cross New Guinea by traversing the Central Range. This very attractive little publication is an edition for young readers of Champion’s memoir of the expedition, Across New Guinea from the Fly to the Sepik (1932).