On a copper-rich tropical island shattered by war, on which survival is a daily struggle, eccentric Mr. Watts, the only white man left after the other teachers flee, spends his day reading to the local children from Charles Dickens's classic Great Expectations.
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"Bamahuta is a poignant farewell that was made by the thousands of Australians who departed the territories of Papua and New Guinea following independence. Among them were the kiaps - the patrol officers. In the coastal villages, the remote mountain hamlets and the burgeoning ne…