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4to (29.5x20.5cm), paperback, 416pp. Very good condition. Mild wear, spine a tad faded. B&w photographs throughout, some maps. Pictures available on request.

Large softcovers, 29.5x21.5cm, 416 pages, illustrations , portraits, maps, facsimiles, genealogical table,some light stains on bottom ledge, large family gift inscription on verso of cover, John Kissack Arnold was a Methodist minister for three years in the Papuan islands, initially at the Methodist head station of Salamo on Fergusson Island, returning after marriage for a further two. These Journals cover only the first three years. At the end there are half a dozen pages of photographs of his wife Hilda Arnold in Papua before her ill health forced them to retire in 1928. Jack Arnold filled a multiplicity of roles: school teacher and preacher, paramedic and dispenser of medicines, translator, and observer of culture. Originally a Victorian government school teacher before he left for Salamo, Arnold was a good all-rounder, mixing well with government officials, traders and staff members from Samoa and Fiji. Because Arnold identified with non-mission Australians including the planter Neil Anderson, unsuspecting traders on Samarai Island took him as one of their own.