Cougle paul (4 resultados)

Soft cover. Condición: Fine. 1st Edition. viii 259 pages. The pages are lightly tanned, else as new. ""Jim Gumm is an ex-infantryman and ex-con, a devoted leading-manservant who's never had his own way or love until Eliza Batman, the wife of his brutal and land-obsessed boss. An infamous treaty bring Jim to the shores of Port Phillip where a Wildman walks into camp. As the unknown Wildman struggles with the loss of his daughter and wife, he becomes Buckley again for settlers who consider him a godsend for their treaty. To Jim, how Buckley has lived a free lifetime with the blacks is a tempting mystery. William Buckley was Victoria's first conciliator and long-term European resident; Jim Gumm was one of Melbourne's first residents." (back cover).…

Soft Cover. First Edition. 8vo. original printed paper wraps; pp. x, 260 (last colophon), with a map. A fine copy.

Trade Paperback. Condición: New. 1st Edition. MINT - a NEW copy. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. xiv, 331 pages. In 1803 the convict escapee William Buckley, an Englishman and former British soldier, abandoned the life he knew and without contact with Europeans lived for many years among the indigenous peoples of what was eventually to become the colony of Victoria. In doing so he showed not only his survival skills but also an extraordinary ability to understand and adapt to a culture in which he was the alien and the intruder. How and with whom he lived between 1803 and 1835 has not been explored, and colonisation soon destroyed the way of life of those Buckley had lived among, leaving him and his achievements generally ignored and also open to ridicule. This book will change that view. As Murrangoork, Buckley deeply believed in the reincarnation myth he was embodying, and he may have thought of himself as Kondak, a Wathaurong elder - an astonishing claim by the first long-term European resident of Victoria, who went on to become that colony's first and greatest racial conciliator.…

1st edition softback with stiff wrappers As New octavo x + 259pp., map, character list, A fine historical novel of Jim Gunn & William Buckley.