Doorways: A Year of the Cumberdeen Diary by Eric Rolls

Book Description

Secondhand. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Remnant mark on tail foredge. Dust jacket is invery good condition and is now in protective covering. Interior and binding are still very good.

This book begins on Eric Roll's farm, Cumberden, situated on land once known as Pretty Plains, between the ancient, crumbling Warrumbungle Mountains and the great new Pilliga Forest.

The middle part of the diary recounts a four-month research trip through coastal towns in Queensland to the remote Palmer River, then across to Darwin and Kakadu. To finish on the ruby fields of central Australia.

This diary was written while Eric Rolls researched and wrote Flowers and the Wide Sea, a human history of the Chinese in Australia. (book flap)