Description
Title: Watch Off Arnhem Land
Author: Haultain, Charles Theodore Graham
Condition: Very Good – Previous owners label on the inside of the front cover. Subscribers copy and previous owners name on inside of the front cover. Inscription and signed by the author on the title page.
Edition: 1st Edition
Publication Date: 1971
ISBN: 0950085820
Cover: Hard Cover with Dust Jacket – 292 pages
Comments: Personal reminiscences of Arnhem Land patrol boat captain, 1930s; many general references to Aborigines on Arnhem Land coast; Bathurst Island Monsignor Gsell, body painting (Snake Bay); trade between Aborigines & Japanese pearlers for use of Aboriginal women; Millingimbi – use of ant heads as suture for flesh wound; Yirkalla – brief reference to Wongu & Caledon Bay massacre.
