The Godly Tape Recorder March 6, 2013
Author: Beach Combing | in : Contemporary
A very brief blog today as exams are on and marking will be intense. Beach recently had the luck to stumble on this beautiful piece in a routine outline of anthropological research. He was reminded of that great A.C.Clarke quotation: ‘Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.’ To someone in New Guinea ignorant of […]
Lost in Shangri-La July 20, 2011
Author: Beach Combing | in : ContemporaryIn May 1945 an American flight over central New Guinea crashed and killed all but three of the twenty four servicemen on board. The three survivors – two men and a woman – found themselves in the midst of a dense jungle miles from home. They managed to parley with the local tribespeople – who […]
