Home Before Dark. The Story Of Les Darcy, A Great Australian Hero

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: Very Good
Publisher: Viking/Penquin
Publisher Place: Ringwood
Publisher Year: 1995
Edition: First Edition

Description: 365 pages. Book and Jacket are both in Very good condition throughout. The only exceptions are a small inscription to the inside page and light shelf wear to edges.

Publishers Description: Biography of Australian champion boxer telling of his childhood in the Hunter valley in NSW, his boxing career, his controversial journey to the US during WWI, just before the first conscription referendum and his death in the US in 1917 aged 21. Much of the book is based on material on Darcy collected by Parks late husband, the novelist Darcy Niland. Park is an award-winning author who has written over 50 books, including Swords and Crowns and Rings which won the Miles Franklin Award, and A Fence Around the Cuckoo which won the Age Book of the Year Award for non-fiction. Champions other publications include Discrimination and Intellectual Handicap.

ISBN: 9780670857395