Donald Thomson in Arnhem Land. (Presentation copy)

/ by Donald Thomson ; compiled and introduced by Nicolas Peterson. Melbourne : Miegunyah Press, 2003. Revised edition. Octavo (255 x 180 mm), publisher’s cloth in pictorial dust jacket, pp. xvi, 245, illustrated; a fine presentation copy, inscribed for Frank [Purcell] on the colophon by Professor Nicolas Peterson and on the verso of the front free-endpaper by Thomson’s second wife, Dorita; with an invitation to the book launch loosely enclosed.

‘I have lived and hunted with these people, accompanied them on their nomadic wanderings and learned their customs and their languages with the result that I understood and believed in them and resented the injustices under which they had suffered for so long at the hands of the white man and other invaders of their territory’ – Donald Thomson.