English summary: In this volume the pioneering Bavarian missionary Johann Flierl (1858-1947) reminisces about his eventful life on three continents. He takes the reader into the rural Oberpfalz of his childhood, the world of German emigrants in South Australia and into everyday life on missions amongst desert aborigines or in the tropical north of the country. His main subject however is New Guinea. Flierl tells the reader about life in this German...