Life On The Daly River
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
Deep in the Northern Territory of Australia, the Daly River winds through one of the continent's last great wilderness frontiers — and Life on the Daly River chronicles the vivid, unfiltered human experience of those who called this remote landscape home. Co-authored by Nancy Polishuk and celebrated Australian journalist Douglas Lockwood, the book presents an intimate portrait of life on the river's banks, capturing the rhythms of a community shaped by isolation, Indigenous culture, and the raw beauty of the tropical Australian outback. It details the daily realities, personal stories, and cultural encounters that defined existence in one of the continent's most untouched regions. Douglas Lockwood, renowned for his deeply empathetic and observational style of writing about Australia's Northern Territory and its Aboriginal peoples, brings his signature journalistic rigour to this collaborative work, lending it both authenticity and warmth. Together with Polishuk, the narrative weaves personal testimony with broader cultural observation, illustrating the complex relationship between settler and Indigenous life along the Daly River. A rare and valuable document of mid-twentieth-century Australian frontier life, this title leaves the reader wondering what has been lost — and what endures — along those ancient riverbanks.
Author: Nancy Polishuk And Douglas Lockwood
Format: Hardback
Published: 1967, Rigby Limited
Genre: Australian history
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
Deep in the Northern Territory of Australia, the Daly River winds through one of the continent's last great wilderness frontiers — and Life on the Daly River chronicles the vivid, unfiltered human experience of those who called this remote landscape home. Co-authored by Nancy Polishuk and celebrated Australian journalist Douglas Lockwood, the book presents an intimate portrait of life on the river's banks, capturing the rhythms of a community shaped by isolation, Indigenous culture, and the raw beauty of the tropical Australian outback. It details the daily realities, personal stories, and cultural encounters that defined existence in one of the continent's most untouched regions. Douglas Lockwood, renowned for his deeply empathetic and observational style of writing about Australia's Northern Territory and its Aboriginal peoples, brings his signature journalistic rigour to this collaborative work, lending it both authenticity and warmth. Together with Polishuk, the narrative weaves personal testimony with broader cultural observation, illustrating the complex relationship between settler and Indigenous life along the Daly River. A rare and valuable document of mid-twentieth-century Australian frontier life, this title leaves the reader wondering what has been lost — and what endures — along those ancient riverbanks.