Black Sheep: Journey to Borroloola by Nicholas Jose

Book Description

Secondhand. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges, particularly right front cover tail corner now protected with book tape. Pages have sunned.

This highly original book – history, travel book, memoir, quest – sets out to discover Roger Jose, perhaps a distant relative, and his life in a remote Aboriginal community on Australia’s farthest shore, reading world literature and evolving his radical philosophy.

Roger’s motto, still pinned up in Borroloola, was ‘Man’s greatness is the fewness of his needs.’

In his journey through the Gulf of Carpentaria searching for Roger, Nicholas Jose also met a young Gangalidda man, Murrandoo Yanner, a representative of some of the most deprived Aboriginal communities in Australia who has committed himself to fighting for his people’s rights in their vast and beautiful traditional territory.

This book is the absorbing response of a modern writer to his heritage. (publisher blurb)