{"product_id":"2026100010336-secondhand-poor-fellow-my-country","title":"Poor Fellow My Country","description":"\u003cp\u003eEdition: 3rd pr.,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: Wear and tear with damage\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003cbr\u003eMarkings: Previous owner\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublished in 1975 and awarded the Miles Franklin Award that same year, Poor Fellow My Country stands as the longest novel ever published in Australia — a monumental work of fiction spanning over 1,400 pages that chronicles the turbulent decades leading up to World War II through the eyes of Jeremy Delacy, a disillusioned cattle station owner in Australia's remote Northern Territory. Herbert constructs an epic tapestry of colonial Australia, weaving together the lives of Indigenous Australians, mixed-race characters, and white settlers to lay bare the devastating human cost of racism, dispossession, and failed nationhood. The novel's vast canvas — stretching from the sun-scorched outback to the corridors of political power — presents a scathing indictment of a society unwilling to confront its own moral failings.\n\nXavier Herbert writes with fierce, uncompromising conviction, wielding a prose style that is at once lyrical and combative, richly detailed and deeply polemical. Poor Fellow My Country argues that Australia's original sin — its treatment of Aboriginal peoples — renders its claim to civilisation hollow, a theme Herbert pursues with relentless, almost missionary intensity. Drawing on decades of personal experience in the Northern Territory, he illustrates a nation tragically at odds with its own landscape and conscience. A work of extraordinary ambition and passion, it remains one of the most challenging and essential novels in the Australian literary canon — and a question it poses about identity and belonging still demands an answer.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50813028532443,"sku":"2026100010336-SECONDHAND","price":30.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/da1d0395-41ce-4bc6-97cd-eae4cc924042.png?v=1792371850","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026100010336-secondhand-poor-fellow-my-country","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}