Port Moresby - Post Report Question and Answers
Do you recommend any books or movies about this city/country for those who are interested in learning more?
If you are interested in World War II history you can find many books featuring Papua New Guinea. The Reluctant Colonialist is a good quick read summarizing Australia’s involvement with the country over the past 100+ years. New Guinea by Princeton University Press is an authoritative yet accessible coffee table book with beautiful images of the nature and cultures of the island by a National Geographic photographer. Other books focus on adventurers, such as Four Corners, by Kira Salak. Many books and films are written by expats on their perspectives of the country; it is harder but not impossible to find books/films by Papua New Guineans. The US embassy maintains a reasonably large collection of books that can be borrowed by those inside the mission. Unfortunately the national library is underfunded and does not allow borrowing. There are a few folk stories published for children available in a few stationery stores but there are no bookstores as such. - Aug 2025
"Guns, Germs and Steel" - Jun 2016
