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Scribner UK, 2023. 9781398506930. 1st edn 1st printing. 8vo. Original silver lettered black cloth (Fine), dustwrapper (Fine, not price clipped). Pp. 326, illus with b&w frontispiece and with coloured and b&w plates (no inscriptions).

Hardback. New. From the bestselling author of <i>The Bush</i>, the story of a fifty-year relationship between a Vietnam veteran and an isolated clan in north-east Arnhem Land – a unique, astonishing window into Australia’s deep past and precarious present, by a master storyteller.

Simon & Schuster, Sydney, 2022. Edition Unstated. Hardcover. Good Condition/Good. Signed by Author. The story of a fifty-year relationship between a Vietnam veteran and a remote Aboriginal tribe: a miniature epic of human adaptation, suffering and resilience.The Passion of Private White describes the meeting of two worlds: the world of the fiercely driven biologist and anthropologist Neville White, and the world of the hunter-gatherer clans of remote northern Australia he studied and lived with. As White tried to understand the world as it was understood on the other side of the vast cultural divide, he was also trying to transcend the mental scars he suffered on the battlefields of Vietnam. The clans had their own injuries to deal with, as they tried to adapt to modernity, live down their losses and yet hold onto their ancient lands, customs, laws and language.Over five decades, White mapped in astonishing detail the culture and history of the Yolgnu clans at Donydji in… Read More