The Proving Grounds – A Journey through the Interior of New Guinea and Australia –

“… This eight-month quest (sometimes humorous, frequently dangerous) takes him in and out of relationships with nomads, goldminers and missionaries, across the central mountain range of remotest New guinea to the living magic of the ‘uncontacted’ Yaifo people, over the treacherous Torres Strait by flimsy canoe to Australia, and into the red sands of the Gibson Desert. Here the Aboriginals have settled around a perpetual drinking hole, and the newly arrived whitefella finds his way through the violence and decay to become at last a ‘man of true men’. …”