Author: Peters. LONG, W. Arnold.
Title: Bobbie Peters A Chosen Vessel. A story of a deformed half-caste aboriginal native worker, who was made meet for the master's use.
Description: Melbourne, S. John Bacon for the Aborigines Inland Mission [1944?]. Octavo publisher's colour printed wrappers with peekaboo cut out (photo of Bobbie Peters beneath - in an earthen urn, short tear around the edge); 32pp, photo ills. Owner's stamps on title, a pretty good copy. ¶ 'Treasure in an Earthen Vessel' (the cover title) it is not. An appalling piece of claptrap, dubious on every level - particularly the basic facts - but a treasure of sorts still. The title here leaves out his alcoholism; there must be only one step further down the disadvantaged ladder to go.
Keywords: history religion c20th Australia aborigines missions race racism
Title: Bobbie Peters A Chosen Vessel. A story of a deformed half-caste aboriginal native worker, who was made meet for the master's use.
Description: Melbourne, S. John Bacon for the Aborigines Inland Mission [1944?]. Octavo publisher's colour printed wrappers with peekaboo cut out (photo of Bobbie Peters beneath - in an earthen urn, short tear around the edge); 32pp, photo ills. Owner's stamps on title, a pretty good copy. ¶ 'Treasure in an Earthen Vessel' (the cover title) it is not. An appalling piece of claptrap, dubious on every level - particularly the basic facts - but a treasure of sorts still. The title here leaves out his alcoholism; there must be only one step further down the disadvantaged ladder to go.
Keywords: history religion c20th Australia aborigines missions race racism
Price: AUD 75.00 = appr. US$ 51.89 Seller: Richard Neylon, Bookseller
- Book number: 8442
- Book number: 8442