Ourselves Writ Strange

by Alan Marshall

F. W. Cheshire, 1948, First Edition
Black and white photographic plates, illustrated endpapers (maps)
Hardcover, dustjacket

Condition: Very Good
A little edge and shelf wear, a little rubbing and bumping to edges, corners and covers, previous owners’ inscription on half title page, dustjacket shows some edge and shelf wear with some chipping, rubbing, creasing and small tears (see photographs) 

“In “Ourselves Writ Strange” we once again travel Australia with his buoyant personality as out guide.  But this time he leaves the trodden highway that linked the incidents in “These Are My People” and takes us into Australia’s unknown areas in the North, to the tiny islands of Torres Strait, to remote mission stations.  He leaves the land of the White Man, and chooses for his companions the dark-skinned aboriginals.  He enters the villages of the Islanders; he plays with native children; and always seeks out the story-tellers, the old people who can recount to him the myths and legends of their race.”