Cape York: The Savage Frontier
Rodney LiddellDubbo: Rodney Liddell, 1991.
First Edition. Inscribed by Author
21cm x 15cm. [iv], 96 pages, colour illustrations, maps. Pictorial wrappers.
The self published first edition telling the stories of the castaway Barbara Thompson, the lost expedition of Edmund Kennedy, and the settling of Cape York by Frank Jardine, without many of the controversial chapters of the later editions. This copy inscribed by the author to Margaret Lawrie, collector of stories and mythologies of the Torres Strait, also with a 1996 postcard from the author addressed to Lawrie laid in.
Very minor shelf and handling wear. Near Fine Condition.
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AU$400