Drums of Mer by Ion L Idriess

Book Description

Secondhand. Fair to good condition. Wear to book covers, corners and edges. Tear to spine top. Pages are heavily sunned. Book is now enclosed in protective non-adhesive cover.

Set in the Torres Strait in the mid-1850s, Idriess tells the story of the lives and mythologies of the local inhabitants and the fate of shipwrecked Europeans (Trove).

Idriess based his novel on the true story of the wrecking of the barque Charles Eaton. It was later reworked as a children's book, Headhunters of the Coral Sea.