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The Forgotten People: A History of the Australian South Sea Island Community

by Moore, Clive (Editor)

First Edition

Price: $8.00


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Book desription: Sydney, Australia: The Australian Broadcasting Commission, 1979 Small paperback first edition, stiff card covers 95 pages illustrated with black and white photos. Very good copy, clean sharp, glossy with light shelf weare and edge rubbing firm binding. Has small price sticker on back cover. This book details the forced "slave labour" of the South Sea Islanders commandeered to work as labourers in the Queensland sugar plantations in the later half of the 1800's. This is the Islanders' own story, as told by their descendants still living in Australia. . First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

  • Bookseller: ReadBeFore Books AU (AU)
  • Bookseller Inventory #: 001230
  • Format/binding: Paperback
  • Book condition: Very Good
  • Jacket condition: No Jacket
  • Edition: First Edition
  • Binding: Paperback
  • ISBN 10: 0642972605
  • ISBN 13: 9780642972606
  • Publisher: The Australian Broadcasting Commission
  • Place: Sydney, Australia
  • Date published: 1979
  • Keywords: South Sea Islands, History, Slave Trade
  • Subjects: HISTORY / Australia & New Zealand;

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