The Wild White Man of Badu: A Story of the Coral Sea by Ion L Idriess

Book Description

Secondhand. Fair condition. Marking to covers. Wear to book corners and edges. Book is complete buy binding has started to loosen. No jacket. Previous owner has inscribed inside page. First edition. Signed by Ion L Idriess.

This true story came from the ship's log of the HMS Rattlesnake under the command of Captain Owen Stanley... who was searching for the Kennedy expedition... sailing the Coral Seas searching for men in the peninsula ranges, and Barbara Thompson (c1831-1912) was captive on Murralug.

Billy Winn, an escaped convict from Norfolk Island, had, through a reign of terror and treachery, cowed the most fearful of all peoples - the Coral Sea headhunters. He had taken power on Badu as the feared demi-god Wongai. Hearing that a white woman was to be found on Murralug, he gathered the Badu headhunters to raid Murralug... However, Barbara, after being held on Murralug for five years, succeeded in escaping from the Murralug people and Wongai, and incredibly, was rescued by Captain Owen Stanley and taken back to Sydney. (Trove)

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