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Idriess, Ion L. THE WILD MAN OF BADU. A Story of the Coral Sea. BNo. n/a. First Edition, 1950. Pp:

xvi, 232; 210mm x 135mm; 0.48kg. 19 b/w(pl), 3 maps. Acknowledgments, author's note. A good copy

in chipped wrapper. Cvr: g; dw: g. (minor water stain). Angus and Robertson, Sydney, 1950. (The author

has reconstructed the true story of a convict who escaped from Norfolk Island to become chief of Badu

in the Torres Strait) (Keywords: Exploration, adventure, Australia, Torres Strait, Badu).

Book Code: E423 AU $30


Moore, David R. ARTS AND CRAFTS OF TORRES STRAIT. Shire Ethnography Series. BNo.

0-7478-0007-3. First Edition, 1989 (pb). Pp: 64; 210mm x 150mm; 0.14kg. 48 b/w & fig, 2 maps.

Acknowledgments, further reading, index. A good paperback copy. Wrp: g. (minor buckle in top cover).

Shire Publications Ltd, Aylesbury, UK, 1989. (In this study of the Torres Strait Islanders, the author

considers the utilitarian, religious, recreational, personal, commercial and military products of the island

craftsmen and their application and usage in the many aspects of island life) (Keywords: Ethnology,

material culture, Pacific, Australia, Melanesia, doiom, Massid, Tutu, Waier, Waiet).

Book Code: K167 AU $22


Moore, David R. ISLANDERS AND ABORIGINES AT CAPE YORK. An ethnographic reconstruction

based on the 1848-1850 'Rattlesnake' Journals of O.W. Brierly and information he obtained from Barbara

Thompson. BNo. 0-85575-082-0 First Edition, 1978 (pb). Pp: xii, 340; 250mm x 180mm; 0.71kg. 19

b/w(pl), 9 fig, 5 maps. Preface, acknowledgments, appendix, bibliography, glossary, index. A very good

paperback copy. Wrp: vg. Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, Canberra, 1978. (This book is an

adventure story and a detailed ethnography of a hitherto little-known group of hunters and gardeners at

the frontier between Australia and New Guinea) (Keywords: Ethnography, Australia, Torres Strait,

prehistory, Kaurareg, Gudang).

Book Code: D344 AU $25


Mosby, Tom, & Brian Robinson. ILAN PASIN. (This is Our Way). BNo. 0-9586858-4-3. First Edition,

1998 (pb). Pp: 152; 305mm x 245mm; 0.98kg. 100 col, 2 b/w, 1 map. Prefaces, introduction, list of

works, acknowledgments, author and writer biographies. A very good paperback copy. Wrp: vg. Cairns

Regional Gallery, Cairns, 1998. (This book acccompanied the first Australian retrospective exhibition on

Torres Strait art. This book provides, for the first time a Torres Strait Islander perspective on the history,

customs, legends and artistic expressions of a people who existed as a minority within the minority of

indigenous Australians) (Keywords: Cultural history, Pacific, Australia, Melanesia, artefacts,

contemporary art, language, religion).

Book Code: L100 AU $44


Sharp, Nonie. FOOTPRINTS ALONG THE CAPE YORK SANDBEACHES. Seafaring Aboriginal peoples

of the Peninsula and the Kaurareg. BNo. 0-85575-230-0. First Edition, 1992 (pb). Pp: xiv, 237, 240mm

x 170mm; 0.62kg. 13 b/w, 4 maps. Preface, acknowledgments, abbreviations, bibliography, index. A

good paperback copy. Wrp: g. Aboriginal Studies Press, Canberra, 1992. (This book is about the

seafaring people of Northern Cape York Peninsula and the Kaurareg, who inhabited the Prince of Wales

group of islands.) (Keywords: Ethnohistory, Australia, Cape York, Torres Strait, Kaurareg).

Book Code: G151 AU $18


Sharp, Nonie. STARS OF TAGAI. The Torres Strait Islanders. BNo. 0-85575-238-6. First Edition, 1993

(pb). Pp: xxii, 321; 240mm x 170mm; 0.86kg. 24 b/w, 7 fig, 2 maps. Preface, acknowledgments,

abbreviations, notes, bibliography, glossary, index. A good paperback copy. Wrp: g. Aboriginal Studies

Press, Canberra, 1993. (This book creates a picture of a unique sea culture rich in meaning and

custom. The author's observations of islander life over the past fourteen years join with the life stories of

islanders) (Keywords: mythology,indigenous peoples, Australia, Torres Strait, Magani, Malu, Meriam).

Book Code: H060 AU $26


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