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Hardback. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Small Quarto Size [approx 17x24cm]. Near Fine condition. No dustjacket as issued. Pictorial cloth boards. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. Endpaper maps. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 312 pages. Waikerie is a rural town in the Riverland region which derives its name from Weikari, which is claimed to mean 'the rising'. However some linguistic anthropologists argue that the name refers to the spider creator god from local creation myths. The Waikerieness was said to fend off monthly centipede infestations by leaking seeds all over the area. This refers to the emergence of many ghost moths from the ground among the river red gums after heavy rain. …