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For those of you still wondering what to purchase for your loved ones – why not consider choosing something from our Corner Shop.
If you are thinking of walking the Kokoda Trail in 2006, you might consider any of the following:
- Kokoda Trek Trek – what an excellent gift
- Kokoda DVD – All Roads Marketing
- Kokoda Diary – Bob McDonald
- Kokoda Photograph Album & World War II History – Bob McDonald
- the book – Kokoda a History Of by Stuart Hawthorne
If you are interested please click on the following:
kokodadvd.gifKokoda Trek Gift:
Select a 6 or 9 day trek – plenty to choose from by clicking on our schedule page.
Fantastic experience – the chance of a lifetime to follow their dreams and walk the infamous Kokoda Trail in Papua New Guinea.
Motivation for exercise and a wonderful experience they will never forget.
Photograph: Nauro Village – Kokoda Trail:
IMGP0303.jpgKokoda DVD:
Follow a group of guides and porters from Kokoda Trekking (www.kokodatrekking.com.au), along the infamous Kokoda Trail. Starting at Kokoda Village ending at Ower's Corner
The DVD also includes a 15 minute slide show at the end, from various treks over the years.
The footage has been take by guides and porters while on the trail, so please do not expect a professional documentary.
It will however give you a good idea of what to expect between Kokoda and Ower's Corner.
If you are concerned about using your credit card on the internet, please post a cheque to the following address.
Please include your name and delivery address.
Allroads Marketing Discretionary Trust
PO Box 443
Mt Gravatt Plaza
Mt Gravatt, 4122
Brisbane
Australia
kokodadvd.gifPast Time, and Your Time, On the Kokoda Trail
Introduction With the trek you will soon be, or are now planning to undertake, you will retrace the footsteps, made over sixty years ago during the Second World War, of the soldiers who fought to conquer, or defend, Papua New Guinea and Australia. The defenders won a hard fought battle that was often in the balance. In doing so, they created a legend. A legend you are here to re-live and experience, as best you can, compressing some three months of fierce campaigning (the part which involved the fighting for the Kokoda Trail) into a six or nine day trek. This booklet provides a condensed history of the campaign, and a place to record your thoughts on your trek.
Kokoda Trail – McDonald's Corner Album
From a young family looking down the barrel of Japanese invasion to the Battle of the Coral Sea to the soldier's campaign to current trekking, this album is the story of Kokoda Trail accompanied by 400 images spanning the past sixty years.
Reading this makes your legs grow weary as if you had just climbed the 'Golden Stairs' or the nine false peaks of the Maguli Range. You feel the mud between your toes and imagine the taste of acrid cordite atop Butchers Hill or in the the dark, dank, dripping depths of Eora Creek. Combining the best Kokoda writers with personal pictures of the track, this collection demonstrates the utter waste and sheer strength of spirit that kept Australia safe during those bleak hours of 1942.
A detailed overview, this compilation identifies specific battalion movements during gruelling engagements, revises military decisions, diseases contracted on the track, the fuzzy wuzzy angels and describes the trail through the eyes of someone who has trekked what has become known as, 'the ultimate military obstacle course'.
In this album there are 10 A3 size pages to hold 120 personal photos for when you walk 'The Bloody Track'.
A little about the publisher – Bob McDonald
Bob spent 41 years living at McDonald?s Corner at the Moresby end of the Kokoda Trail.The corner is named after his father P.J. who in 1941 had acquired some virgin jungle called Ilolo where he started planting rubber trees. There was no ?corner? in 1942, it was just a road-head where the walking track to Kokoda commenced.
The 8 kilometre road to the plantation, which PJ built by hand, was of great strategic importance when the Kokoda campaign commenced. P.J. refused to be evacuated and was commissioned a Lieutenant in the field, at age 52 (he was ex Gallipoli) with ANGAU, and stayed for the duration of the war at McDonald?s Corner.
Bob?s childhood was alive with the ?real? toys of war. Tommy gun, Japanese woodpecker and type 99 light machine gun, 303?s and a 45 pistol, all which were ?sort of aimed? and fired regularly. Each Christmas holidays a whole box of 303 ammunition was put through the barrels.
Bob took over the property in 1967 and operated it until being acquired under the Acquisition Act in 1980. After settling amicably with the local Kioari people, he moved to the Sunshine Coast where he happily pursues all manner of odd opportunities.
He walked the Trail last December with his son and nephew, who kept asking probing questions. To answer these satisfactorily he has produced this Kokoda Trail-McDonald?s Corner album, which covers all aspects of the Kokoda Campaign and has room for 120 photos for those who have walked The Bloody Track.
RSL clubs are acquiring the Album, displaying it in a timber/glass case and turning a page each week.
Details
Price: AU$ 495.00 (~US$ 321.75)
album_500.jpgKokoda Trail Trekking Guide and Diary
A Must Have diary out on the Kokoda Trail. 40 Pages – 12 for your own notes. Write it down whilst fresh with emotion.
Comes Complete with the following features:- A5 Size in Glossy Paper
- Lightweight – carry it with you in your backpack
- 40 pages – 12 for your own notes
- Write it down whilst fresh with emotion
- Kokoda campaign
- Battle Maps of Isurava, Mission Ridge, Ioribaiwa, Templeton's Crossing and
- Eora Creek.
- Statistics
- History
- Fuzzy Wuzzy Angels
- Mail run and track records etc
Price: AU$ 25.00 (~US$ 16.25)
Important Feature – cover of diary when flattened out forms a map of the Kokoda Trail
diary_300.jpgBob's Motu – English Dictionary with PNG History Pre World War II
Walking the Kokoda Trail in December 2002 after being away from the country for 22 years, I was amazed how Motu words just seemed to appear from the back of the mind. This came from living in PNG for 41 years when Motu was the lingua franca of Papua.
Pidgin appeared in the early 50?s with the advent of the Highland?s Labour Scheme. Pidgin was not spoken on The Kokoda Trail during the war.
Speaking Motu was a real surprise to our carriers, for most everyone today uses ?Tok Pisin?. Motu became the catalyst for an easy friendship between ourselves and the locals, as it was a compliment to them that they were being spoken to in their own language.
Most who live on the Track, and in the Motu areas of Papua (around the Port Moresby area, throughout Central Province, Oro, Gulf, and part of Milne Bay provinces, with some in the Western Province) are multi lingual who speak: village talk, Motu, Pisin and English.Motu disparities in different areas today are still as numerous as when Sir William MacGregor in 1890 tried to simplify it to Police Motu. This booklet is intended only to enable the reader to communicate with some fun to those who speak whatever Motu.
Price: AU$ 25.00 (~US$ 16.25)
Motu_Flyer_500.jpgThe Kokoda Trail: A History
The Kokoda Trail is a remote jungle track in the old Australian Territory of Papua where Aussie Diggers and the Fuzzy Wuzzy Angels battled desperately against Japanese invaders to save Australia in 1942.
The Kokoda Trail campaign, fought out over six months and two days on a narrow front in appalling conditions, has become an honoured part of our Australian heritage. But there is much more to the Kokoda Trail than this.
Historian and adventurer Stuart Hawthorne looks back 130 years over the Trail?s captivating past. He traces the explorers, gold seekers, missionaries and colonial officials who pushed this tiny foot pad across unbelievably harsh country to set out a fascinating account of the fortunes of this 96.4 kilometre track.
Did you know a surveyor set out the route of the first Kokoda Trail before Kokoda even existed? Or why it?s the Kokoda Trail, not Track? Or who gave the Trail?s ?Golden Staircase? its name?
Thirty years in the making, The Kokoda Trail: A History provides the first complete account of this sinuous little footpad that holds such a cherished position in the Australian psyche.
This book reveals for the first time that there is another, larger, history of the Kokoda Trail which is every bit as compelling and intriguing as the grim war years of 1942.
"A fascinating insight into the turbulent history of the Trail, comprehensively illustrated with early photographs, and easily understood, sequential maps. Stuart Hawthorne displays a clear understanding based on his personal knowledge and experience. A definiteve resource and a major contribution to the historical record." Brigadier Gordon Jones AM (retired)
"Extremely well researched.. a very readable and engrossing account of the most cherished of Australian icons." Group Captain Greg Ison
"Stuart Hawthorne has woven a tale that was most definitely worth telling, and he has done it well. The writing is crisp and clear. … Obviously the work of an experienced researcher, writer and historian with an intimate and long-term knowledge of the subject." Queensland Parliementary Library Review
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