A World That Was. The Yaraldi of the Murray River and the Lakes, South Australia
Vancouver, University of British Columbia Press, 1993 (first Canadian edition)/ 1993.
Quarto, xxxii, 624 pages with 36 illustrations, 20 tables and 10 maps plus 20 pages of plates (comprising 45 illustrations from photographs).
Papered boards; front board slighly bowed; small light shelfmark to the bottom edge; an excellent copy with like dustwrapper.
One of the Miegunyah Press series, first published by Melbourne University Press earlier the same year. 'Material originally collected in the 1940s now appears for the first time in this intricate study of an Aboriginal people who inhabited some of the richest country in Australia at the time of European colonisation'.
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