Book Details
Title: Moonbird People
Author: Patsy Adam Smith
Illustrator: N/A
Publisher: Rigby Limited
Year: 1965
Impression/Edition: N/A
Cover: Hardcover with Dust Jacket
Pages: 220
Dimensions:
Weight:
ISBN: N/A
Battle Scars:
Overall acceptable condition.
Outside:
The dust jacket is intact but appears clipped. There is some shelf wear to edges/ends/corners, with rubbing, minor creasing to edges and a couple of small tears/chips. Minor scuffing.
The hardcover is intact with shelf wear (rubbing) to edges, ends and corners as pictured. Some bumping to corners and a couple of marks/spots here and there.
The page margins (seen when book is closed) are clean.
Inside:
The binding is firm and intact.
Inside the front and back covers is clean.
The pages are clean and intact, apart from a name inscribed in ink on the top of the title page.
Don't forget to check the photos below for a visual and make sure you are happy prior to purchase. Happy to answer questions if there is information missing.
Book Content:
Blurb -
"The migratory mutton birds - homeless, it is said, since the moon fell of the face of the earth and left them behind.
Patsy Adam Smith was sent by an Australian magazine to the Furneaux group of islands, in Bass Strait, to write a documentary feature about these birds and the people whose very existence depended upon them. The photographer who went with her stayed three days, in what he called "the end of the flaming earth". Patsy Adam Smith remained for years.
For six of these years she was a member of the crew of a coastal trader - cooking, taking her trick at the wheel, and helping in any other way the captain ordered. For another four years she wandered about the islands, living with the Cape Barreners, descendants of Tasmanian Aboriginal women abducted by sealers from their now vanished tribes. She travelled with families whose forefathers settled in the islands before either Melbourne or Sydney was founded.
The islanders have a saying, "The islands have got a holt on yer." From the time Patsy Adam Smith smelt the oil oozing through the staves of the great wooden casks and listened to the folk-history of the islands they had a 'holt' on her."
Book Details
Title: Moonbird People
Author: Patsy Adam Smith
Illustrator: N/A
Publisher: Rigby Limited
Year: 1965
Impression/Edition: N/A
Cover: Hardcover with Dust Jacket
Pages: 220
Dimensions:
Weight:
ISBN: N/A
Battle Scars:
Overall acceptable condition.
Outside:
The dust jacket is intact but appears clipped. There is some shelf wear to edges/ends/corners, with rubbing, minor creasing to edges and a couple of small tears/chips. Minor scuffing.
The hardcover is intact with shelf wear (rubbing) to edges, ends and corners as pictured. Some bumping to corners and a couple of marks/spots here and there.
The page margins (seen when book is closed) are clean.
Inside:
The binding is firm and intact.
Inside the front and back covers is clean.
The pages are clean and intact, apart from a name inscribed in ink on the top of the title page.
Don't forget to check the photos below for a visual and make sure you are happy prior to purchase. Happy to answer questions if there is information missing.
Book Content:
Blurb -
"The migratory mutton birds - homeless, it is said, since the moon fell of the face of the earth and left them behind.
Patsy Adam Smith was sent by an Australian magazine to the Furneaux group of islands, in Bass Strait, to write a documentary feature about these birds and the people whose very existence depended upon them. The photographer who went with her stayed three days, in what he called "the end of the flaming earth". Patsy Adam Smith remained for years.
For six of these years she was a member of the crew of a coastal trader - cooking, taking her trick at the wheel, and helping in any other way the captain ordered. For another four years she wandered about the islands, living with the Cape Barreners, descendants of Tasmanian Aboriginal women abducted by sealers from their now vanished tribes. She travelled with families whose forefathers settled in the islands before either Melbourne or Sydney was founded.
The islanders have a saying, "The islands have got a holt on yer." From the time Patsy Adam Smith smelt the oil oozing through the staves of the great wooden casks and listened to the folk-history of the islands they had a 'holt' on her."
