Blue peaks red ridges (3 resultados)

Soft cover. Condición: Fine. A fine copy. Pp. xvii, 450. The primary narrative tracks Muir's exploits working as a "dogger" (a professional dingo trapper) deployed along and near the #1 Rabbit-Proof Fence. Alongside his trapping duties, Muir was contracted by the Western Australian Agricultural Protection Board to conduct four-wheel-drive exploration work. Using modified vehicles, he surveyed unmapped desert country, located critical water sources, and established navigable inland routes.…

SOFTCOVER. Western Desert Guides. This is a fine unmarked copy of what is now a very rare and collectible book. Scans available if required.

Leonora, The Author, 1989, 1989, and 1990. Quarto, three volumes, ('Blue Peaks') xvii, 402, [2], A.1-A.8, [14] (appendices, including maps) pages plus 34 pages of illustrations (numbered xvii-l); ('Stagnant Wells') xii, 259 pages plus 20 pages of illustrations (numbered xiii-xxxiii) and 8 pages of maps; and ('Dewdrop Fresh') xiv, 297, [130] (appendices, including maps and illustrations) pages plus 30 pages of illustrations (numbered xv-xliv). Blue buckram lettered in gilt (one volume) or black (two volumes); corners very slightly bumped; edges slightly marked; a few other minor signs of age and handling; an excellent group. Numbers 2, 2, and 3 respectively, each from an edition of only 50 copies signed by the author. Each volume is additionally inscribed and signed by the author to Dick Kimber (Richard Glyn Kimber AM, 1939-2024, Centralian author and historian), who contributed the foreword to 'Stagnant Wells and Sandhill Stages', dated in the respective year of publication and signed as Pituri Pete. This trilogy comprises Muir's daily journal as he travelled through remote and largely unsurveyed desert interior of Western Australia while employed as a dingo trapper by the Agricultural Protection Board. It includes his observations relating to the desert ecology in the country around the Canning Stock Route, Aboriginal beliefs and practices, and documentation of Aboriginal rock art sites, in particular Karnatukul/Serpent's Glen in the Carnarvon Range/Katjarra. 'Peter Muir's graphic account is of a primeval landscape unspoiled, yet in the few years since he completed his task for the APB and departed from the scene . that beautiful land he describes in such detail and came to love so much, has already suffered from mineral exploration activities, and much irreparable damage has been done by earth moving equipment. What a fortunate thing for posterity that the author was so acutely aware of his unique situation at the time .' (from the foreword). The trilogy is essentially an expanded version of Muir's 1988 publication 'Sand Soaks and Desert Oaks. The 1965-68 Exploration Journals of Peter Muir'. Loosely inserted in the third volume is a lengthy autograph letter (quarto, 8 pages) signed by the author as 'Pituri Pete' and dated 23 July 1990. He discusses politics (railing against the 'excessive Social Service payouts to our local alcoholics which I am not alone in regarding as a deliberate passive form of social genocide as it is directed mostly towards the aboriginal race .'); a trip with his wife Pukungka into the desert north of Wiluna ('The country changes over 25 years and not to the better either. Every rockhole in the country was dry'); his belief in Aboriginal customs, stories and stewardship of country; and the sensitivity of some of the material contained this volume ('This particular book will never be distributed to the general public as it contains an excess of extremely sensitive material. I instructed the National Lib Canberra to restrict access to serious students or historians until at least the year 2000. I could not do otherwise than include my opinions of certain individuals .'). A second autograph letter (octavo, 1 page, dated 6 November 1989) is loosely inserted in 'Stagnant Wells and Sandhill Stages', discussing the publication of this trilogy. Offered together with eight further publications by Peter Muir. They are: MUIR, Ronald Sibbald 'Peter' and PUKUNGKA [Dolly WALKER]: Genealogy of a Ngalia Family. Leonora, The Author, 1985. Quarto, [i], 93 pages with numerous illustrations from photographs and artwork by the author. Black buckram lettered in gilt; a fine copy. Number 31 of only 50 copies signed by both authors. The family history Walker's wife, Ngalia woman Pukungka (also known as Dolly Walker). The publication page states that Pukungka 'desired to record for posterity the known facts about her forebears before the knowledge becomes lost for all time with the gradual decline in numbers of the once numerous Ngalia population. Few of the old folk are left and when the last of the oldtimers are gone the younger generation will have lost for ever all knowledge of their ancestors and the old ways'. Loosely inserted is a substantial autograph letter signed 'Pituri Pete' (quarto, 6 pages, dated 21 September 1988), addressed to Dick Kimber. Muir discusses his nickname, this book, his future publishing projects and his wife's family, touches on differences in Western Deserts kinship structures, and asks Kimber to track down two old acquaintances in the Alice Springs area. MUIR, Ronald Sibbald 'Peter': Pituri Pete. A Saga of Cattle Lands and Desert Sands by R.S. Muir, 1929-1985 [Stockman & Legend (cover subtitle)]. Leonora, The Author, 1987. Quarto, xx, 646 pages with numerous illustrations, plus a loosely-inserted cancel leaf (to replace pages 639-640). Half morocco and cloth; covers slightly worn; a few other minor signs of age and handling; an excellent copy. Number 12 of only 50 copies signed by the author. This copy is additionally inscribed 'With Best Wishes To Dick Kimber from Pituri Pete himself, 21st Sept 1988' and initialled by the author. Muir's colourful memoir includes accounts of the initiation ceremonies he underwent with the Arrernte people of Central Australia, including circumcision and sub-incision, possibly the only white man to do so. The book contains chapters on Muir's many outback journeys - droving (including on the Canning Stock Route), prospecting, dingo-trapping, and water-finding. A short autograph note signed 'Pete' is loosely inserted with the cancel leaf (which expands the 'Notes & Afterthoughts' section). MUIR, Ronald Sibbald 'Peter': Pack Saddle. Leonora, The Author, 1988. Quarto, [vi], 260 pages with several illustrations. Ochre buckram lettered in gilt; a fine copy. Number 8 of only 50 copies signed by the author. It is additionally inscribed and signed 'To Dick Kimber from Pituri Pete'. A collection of verse and other writings; Pack Sad. Signed.…