Broken Song: T G H Strehlow and Aboriginal Possession by Barry Hill

Book Description

Secondhand. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Tiny mark on top foredge. Dust jacket has some light creasing at edges and spine. Interior and binding are also very good.

Poet and historian, Barry Hill, with exclusive access to Strehlow’s diaries, has written a major work about the troubled man who grew up on the Hermannsburg mission, became the first Patrol Officer of Central Australia, called himself the ‘last of the Aranda’, and compulsively collected secret-sacred objects and images.

Broken Song straddles a century of Australian history, from the race wars on the frontier to the modern era of Aboriginal land rights, tracking Strehlow’s creative and tragic life in translation. (publisher blurb)