Down Among the Wild Men. The Narrative Journal of Fifteen Years Pursuing the Old Stone Age Aborigines of Australia's Western Desert
by Greenway, John
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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San Francisco, California, United States
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About This Item
Richmond VIC: Hutchinson of Australia, 1973. Hardcover. 361p., illustrated with original b&w photographs and a few line maps, hardbound first edition in 9.5x6 inch raspberry cloth boards gilt and enclosed in the colorphoto dust jacket. Casing is mildly edgeworn with crimps at top and tail of backstrip, quite sound and square, clean and free of any markings, dust jacket about the same with a touch of soil, this a very good copy. Greenway is, per dust jacket flap text, "a controversial anthropologist", currently spending his spare time as a deputy sheriff in his home town of Boulder CO. He and his wife got very close to several tribes during their fifteen years in the bush.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 297146
- Title
- Down Among the Wild Men. The Narrative Journal of Fifteen Years Pursuing the Old Stone Age Aborigines of Australia's Western Desert
- Author
- Greenway, John
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Hutchinson of Australia
- Place of Publication
- Richmond VIC
- Date Published
- 1973
- Bookseller catalogs
- Ethnic relations; Australia; Diary, diaries, journal, journals; Crafts, craftwork; Desert;
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Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB
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About the Seller
Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB
Biblio member since 2005
San Francisco, California
About Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB
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- Tail
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