ISBN: 9780727013651 - i the aboriginal (3 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardback. Zustand: Good. The 1962 book, written in first person, is described as the autobiography of Waipuldanya, a full-blood Aboriginal man of the Alawa tribe at Roper River (Ngukurr) in the Northern Territory, as told to Douglas Lockwood. The book concerns Waipuldanya's traditional upbringing and his training to become a skilled medical assistant for the Department of Health at Darwin Hospital. Lockwood wrote the book from more than 100 hours of interview with Roberts. DJ. DJ worn with tears on edges. 240 pages.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Rigby Limited, Adelaide, Australia. 1963. 240 pp. Signed by Douglas Lockwood. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. Small bookplate present to the front pastedown. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. In his youth, Waipuldanya was taught to track and hunt wild animals, to live off the land, to provide for his family with the aid only of his spears and woomeras. This is the gripping story of his boyhood and youth, and how he trained as a skilled medical assistant, to become a citizen of both the Aboriginal and whitefella worlds. This is the first great classic of Aboriginal autobiography, as told to renowned writer, Douglas Lockwood. EB; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 200 pages; Signed by Author.…