Buy this book on-line ROY, THOMAS: : THE CURSE OF THE TURTLELONDON.THE BODLEY HEAD LTD.,1977 ISBN 037030019X.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj. Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated,colour pictorial artwork by Rex Backhaus-Smith, illustrated front panel with black lettering,rear panel with black illustration to tan background; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present. Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight,exceptionally clean - no foxing/spotting to text body,solid and sound - pristine - although no intentional dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,a very tiny,accidental top corner crease to 151/2,else appears unread - apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp, clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original plain tan cloth bds with bright,crisp, stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip, and immaculate plain white eps.UK,8vo HB+ dw/dj,1st edn,9-198pp [paginated] includes 12 chapters and a glossary,profuse b/w illustrations by Rex Backhaus-Smith throughout the text and book,plus [unpaginated] half-title,b/w vignetted (aborigine head portrait),a dedication,two b/w environs mapa (Australia and story's setting).
At the Aboriginal camp,a quarter of a mile from Oonaderra,the Brent family's homestead,the corroboree fires cast an eerie glow over the assembled tribesmen and the tall,commanding figure of their leader,Tajalli,silhouetted against the timeless backdrop of the Australian bush.
Behind a burnt-out tree,Jimmy Brent watches.Suddenly Tajalli raises his shield in his left hand and in the minutes that follow,the boy watches spellbound as an invocation is chanted to the god,Oona,the great turtle.What Jimmy sees urges him to find out later from Tajurra,Tajalli's son,the meaning of the ceremony; it is then that he learns of the curse that broods over Oonaderra and the resentment the Aborigines have been harbouring against his family,the Brents,since they first settled the tribe's sacred land in 1895.
With the unfolding of this fascinating tale,Thomas Roy evokes the beautiful and symbolic culture of the Aborigines,the harshness of life on Australia's wild Cape York Peninsula and the binding loyalty between Jimmy and Tajurra who realize,as one tragedy follows another,that the survival of Oonaderra depends on reconciliation between black and white.
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