Item #122736 Ballander Boy. Colin THIELE.
Ballander Boy

Ballander Boy

Adelaide, Rigby Opal Books, 1979.

Quarto, 56 pages with numerous monochrome illustrations (from photographs by David Simpson).

Papered boards slightly rubbed and bumped; an excellent copy with the dustwrapper slightly creased and torn at the head of the spine.

A photobook, depicting the adventures of a young white ('ballander') boy lost in the Arnhem Land bush. He is found by an Indigenous man, Murrawongi, and spends some days with him, his son Binda and other boys. David Gulpilil plays the part of Murrawongi, and Danny O'Connor is the young white boy; this copy is signed on the half-title by both of them, as well as the photographer, David Simpson.

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