Man Of Two Tribes
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: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
In the vast, unforgiving wilderness of the Australian Nullarbor Plain, a woman vanishes without a trace — and only one man possesses the unique skill to track her down. Man of Two Tribes chronicles the investigations of Detective Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte, known as Bony, a half-Aboriginal, half-white investigator whose mastery of both European detective methods and ancient Aboriginal tracking lore makes him uniquely suited to unravel mysteries where others have utterly failed. When Bony himself becomes a prisoner in an underground cave system beneath the great plain, he must draw upon every instinct from both worlds he inhabits in order to survive and solve a baffling disappearance. Arthur Upfield, one of Australia's most celebrated crime writers, uses the Bony series to illuminate the dramatic tension between Indigenous Australian culture and European settler society, presenting the harsh, sun-bleached landscape as a character in its own right. His prose is deceptively spare yet richly atmospheric, capturing the ancient silence of the outback with extraordinary authority. Man of Two Tribes stands as a compelling testament to Upfield's genius for weaving procedural mystery with profound questions of identity and belonging — leaving readers to wonder which world, in the end, truly claims Bony as its own.
Author: Arthur Upfield
Format: Hardback
Published: 1969, Heinemann, London
Genre: Crime fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
In the vast, unforgiving wilderness of the Australian Nullarbor Plain, a woman vanishes without a trace — and only one man possesses the unique skill to track her down. Man of Two Tribes chronicles the investigations of Detective Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte, known as Bony, a half-Aboriginal, half-white investigator whose mastery of both European detective methods and ancient Aboriginal tracking lore makes him uniquely suited to unravel mysteries where others have utterly failed. When Bony himself becomes a prisoner in an underground cave system beneath the great plain, he must draw upon every instinct from both worlds he inhabits in order to survive and solve a baffling disappearance. Arthur Upfield, one of Australia's most celebrated crime writers, uses the Bony series to illuminate the dramatic tension between Indigenous Australian culture and European settler society, presenting the harsh, sun-bleached landscape as a character in its own right. His prose is deceptively spare yet richly atmospheric, capturing the ancient silence of the outback with extraordinary authority. Man of Two Tribes stands as a compelling testament to Upfield's genius for weaving procedural mystery with profound questions of identity and belonging — leaving readers to wonder which world, in the end, truly claims Bony as its own.