Doorways: A Year of the Cumberdeen Diary by Eric Rolls

Book Description

Secondhand. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges. Dust jacket is in fair condition with a significant tear to right front cover, now repaired and protected with book tape. Interior and binding are still very good. Remnant mark on tail foredge.

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 tells of a four-month research trip through coastal towns of Queensland to the remote Palmer River, 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)