Anthea L Matley

Planting Memories

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Planting Memories follows the life of Culver Matley, who, in 1935, left his drought-ravaged home in Punnichy on the Canadian prairies and sailed to an unknown life on the island of Samarai and then on the Sogeri Plateau of Papua New Guinea. Culver lived and worked on rubber plantations in Papua for 33 years. During WW2, he served as a driver mechanic with the 68 Light Aid Detachment in the Middle East. He met his wife, Margaret, an Australian Air Force nurse in PNG and together, they built a home and raised a family of five children on the Mororo and Eilogo plantations. Based on family letters, photographs, and memories, Planting Memories recounts many Incidents that made up daily life in the PNG mountains. But as their adopted country faced the political and economic challenges of the 1960s, Culver and Margaret reluctantly decided to leave their home and move to Australia.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sevenpens Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 230
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Januar 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 129mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 250g
• ISBN-13: 9780995414426
• ISBN-10: 0995414424
• Artikelnr.: 69839517

Autorenporträt

Anthea Matley was born in Port Moresby and grew up on a rubber plantation on the Sogeri Plateau, Papua New Guinea, immigrating to Australia in 1968.She obtained a Diploma of Professional Writing and Editing through the Kangan Institute, Bendigo, Victoria. She studied part-time while revegetating a 40acre property at Faraday.As part of her course work, Anthea assisted in producing and self-publishing an anthology of student's writing. In 2014 Anthea, again with a team, produced and published Kidnapped by Time, a history of the Faraday area. She has written short stories and poetry, and Planting Memories is her first creative non-fiction book. It took Anthea five years of research, writing and revisiting her childhood home in Papua.She now lives in Elphinstone, central Victoria.