{"product_id":"2026100010914-secondhand-the-passing-of-the-aborigines-a-lifetime-spent-among-the-natives-of-australia","title":"The Passing Of The Aborigines: A Lifetime Spent Among The Natives Of Australia","description":"\u003cp\u003eEdition: 1st aus ed.,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Acceptable\u003cbr\u003eJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and corners\u003cbr\u003ePages: Yellowed\u003cbr\u003eMarkings: Ex-library with usual markings\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFew lives in the annals of Australian history were as singular and devoted as that of Daisy Bates, a woman who surrendered the comforts of civilisation to spend decades living among the Aboriginal peoples of Australia, witnessing firsthand a way of life on the brink of extinction. The Passing of the Aborigines chronicles her extraordinary immersion into the communities of Australia's First Nations peoples, documenting their customs, languages, social structures, and spiritual traditions with a meticulous and compassionate hand. With a foreword by The Hon. Sir George Murray, K.C.M.G., and an introduction by Arthur Mee, the work arrives with the weight of institutional authority, yet it is Bates's own voice — intimate, authoritative, and tinged with profound sorrow — that carries the reader through decades of unflinching observation.\n\nBeyond its value as a historical document, this work stands as a complex and enduring testament to the collision between colonial Australia and its indigenous peoples, raising questions about preservation, paternalism, and cultural legacy that remain urgently relevant today. Bates's prose is direct and deeply personal, drawn not from academic remove but from lived experience — she is at once observer, participant, and mourner. Published by the venerable London house of John Murray from Albemarle Street, the book occupies a unique and controversial place in Australian historiography, celebrated for its ethnographic detail yet critically examined for the assumptions of its era. For readers seeking to understand the human cost of colonisation through the eyes of one of its most unusual witnesses, this volume presents an account that is as haunting as it is irreplaceable.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50572713099483,"sku":"2026100010914-SECONDHAND","price":25.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/ef3337b7-9553-4e25-a701-1051029306ce.png?v=1791167338","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026100010914-secondhand-the-passing-of-the-aborigines-a-lifetime-spent-among-the-natives-of-australia","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}