Queenslanders

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: Very Good
Publisher: University Of Queensland Press
Publisher Place: St Lucia
Publisher Year: 1984
Edition: First Edition

Description: 224 pages. Book and Jacket are both in Very good condition throughout.

Publishers Description: Anecdotes about and biographies of Queenslanders ; includes "A Black and White Love Story" (pp.14-21) about repeated official refusals in 1938-9 to allow a young Aboriginal woman to marry a European man by whom she had a child ; "Fred Bamboo" (pp.107-128), the story of an Aboriginal medicine-man ; and "The Protector" (pp.171-178) detailing the alleged rape of three generations of Aboriginal women by a Protector of Aboriginals in 1955.

ISBN: 0702218162