Bohemia jack (8 resultados)

Paperback. Condición: Good. The cover has two small chunks taken out of the spine. The page edges are lightly tanned. The front endpaper has a mark where a pencil inscirption was erased. 294 pages. Books listed here are not stored at the shop. Please contact us if you want to pick up a book from Newtown. Size: Size F: 8"-9" Tall (203-228mm).…

Soft cover. Condición: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition, first impression 1995 Large Soft Cover near fine book, bottom left corner of rear cover creased, corners and edges lightly rubbed. Contents fine, bright and clean. No inscription. 294 pages with index. Maps. Illustrations. Refences.

Soft cover. Condición: Fair. 1st Edition. Fair condition. Ex library copy with external stickers and protective plastic covering. Stamps on foredges. Date due slip and stamps on inisde pages. Wear to book corners and edges. Marks on foredges. Body text and binding are still in good condition. Jack Bohemia was born in the early 20th century near Fitzroy Crossing, of Jaru and Gooniyandi descent, and was initiated as a Gooniyandi man. Until he retired in 1975, he worked with Western Australian Police as a tracker, apprehending thieves and murderers, finding lost people, and forcibly removing sick Aboriginal people to hospital. Jack's work experiences were often extremely violent and horrifying.…

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. 1st Edition. When Bill McGregor, then a postgraduate student, first went to Fitzroy Crossing in 1980 to study the Gooniyandi language, he mey in Jack Bohemia not only 'the ideal linguist and anthropologist's "informant", but a friend and collaborator whose remarkable personality and extraordinarily detailed and accurate memory of Kimberley history prompted this, the first published (auto) biography of an Aboriginal police tracker. **The book has shelf rubbing at the edges.**.…

1st edition softback with stiff wrappers As New large octavo xv + 294pp., col. & b/w pls., maps, references, index, Jack Bohemia served for over thirty years in the Fitzroy Crossing police force as a tracker.

Wraps. Roy octavo, wraps, b&w illus, colour plate, maps, pp xvi, 294. Near fine condition. Jack Bohemia worked for thirty years for the Fitzroy Crossing police force as a tracker. With his powerful account and McGregor's additional interpretative and contextual history, this is an irreplaceable record of an unusual life and an important contribution to thinking about Aboriginal-white relations.…

"Sales/posting to the USA suspended". Card covers 294pp some b&w photos. Fine. The story of an Aboriginal tracker.

Softcover. Condición: Good.