Author: Beale, Edgar.
Title: Kennedy of Cape York.
Description: Adelaide Rigby Limited, 1970. 1st ed. Hardback thick octavo, dustjacket, good condition (in good dustjacket), black & white photos, maps (including endpapers), some edgewear & small edge tears jacket, reverse side lightly foxed, rear cover faded & little marked, flap price-clipped), pages lightly toned, edges & photos lightly foxed, rubber stamp flyleaf, protected by semiarchival plastic sleeve. 281 pp. Edgar Beale has written the first three-dimensional portrait of Edmund Kennedy, a young man who left England "with an almost mad ambition to distinguish himself", as he did with his three expeditions in New South Wales and Queensland. But within seven years he was hunted to his death by Aborigines among the swamps of Cape York. The author treats Kennedy as a completely human character: humorous, brave, gifted, and exuberant. He becomes the hero of a narrative which has dramatic impact, and is based upon meticulous historical research. (ISBN not printed in book.). ISBN: 0851790062

Keywords: australian biography, australian history, exploration, aborigines, indigenous, queensland 0851790062


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