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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. Darwin, NTU Press, 1999. Large octavo, x, 162 pages plus 10 pages of plates (reproducing 16 photographs and a plan of the gaol). Pictorial card covers unevenly sunned and very slightly rubbed; an excellent copy. Inscribed and signed by the author. 'In September 1883 notorious Fannie Bay Gaol opened its doors with thirty one inmates. For the next ninety six years Fannie Bay Gaol housed those elements of Northern Territory society who transgressed the law of the northern frontier including killers, drug dealers, bushrangers, cattle rustlers and thieves. Fannie Bay Gaol was home also to the innocent offenders whose only crimes were to be vulnerable to colonial law: Chinese and Aboriginal prisoners, the poor, the insane and the children convicted of crimes' (from the blurb). Signed.

Paperback. Good condition. Signed by editors. Includes chapters on Nation and Assimilation: Continuity and Discontinuity in Aboriginal Affairs in the 1950s; Populating the Northern Territory; The Art of Engagement: Indigenous Art and Outside Influence etc. 219pp. ISBN 0975761420.