Turner Violet E (7 results)

Condition: New.

x+178pp. 8vo. B/w illustrations Original boards in dustwrapper. Some off-setting to endpapers. A very good copy. The story of the founding of the Ooldea Mission and the customs and ceremonies of the Australian Aborigines who lived there. First edition.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: New.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Paperback small trade, facsimile dustjacket, fair condition (in good dustjacket), card covers, new staples, black & white photos, slight crinkling & faint tide marks some page edges, jacket rubbed along spine & nearby (slight tide marks flap edges), scuff mark title page, toning title page & last page, bottom corner tip lightly creased few pages, minor edgewear. 93 pp. Violet Turner provides a fascinating short biography of Miss Annie Lock, who has been called "The Mary Slessor of Australia", but the Aborigines of Central Australia know her as "The Good Fella Missus". All quotations were taken from press correspondence of the same period, November, 1928 - April, 1929. The headings for the other chapters were taken from Miss Lock's mission reports of the same time. A valuable way to learn about early Aboriginal history, and the mission work carried out by Miss Lock. (No date, but 1938, Trove.).…

IX, 178 S. Orig.-Leinen mit farbig illustr. Schutzumschlag (dieser stärker rissig). - Vorsatz gebräunt. * The story of the Ooldea Aboriginal Mission Station in South Australia on the Trans-Australian Railway. With Foreword by Jabez Wiltshire (United Aborigines Mission). * (Ein Titel aus unserem Online-Angebot "Geographie - Australien, Ozeanien").…