COORONG by Colin Thiele. Photographs by Mike McKelvey
56 pages. Hard cover with dust jacket. First edition published in Australia by Rigby Ltd in 1972.
Size: 18.6 cm x 24.4 cm.
The front flyleaf reads:
"COORONG is a book with a special purpose. In prose and picture it seeks to develop the wilderness theme and to emphasise its importance to mankind. The Coorong, therefore, becomes more than merely a unique region of South Australia, it is symbolic. It is a source of spiritual renewal - one of those rare places that "should be preserved as hunting grounds for the poetic imagination."
Colin Thiele's prose and Mike McKelvey's photographs are well suited to evoke this special spirit. Ten years ago, in Storm Boy, Colin Thiele created a Coorong-based book that the Times Literary Supplement called a classic. And Mike McKelvey's pictures are the work of a man who is both artist and wilderness lover.
Yet Coorong is solidly based in fact. History, geography and present day reality form the core of the text - together with a plea for environmental understanding and a condemnation of mankind and his agencies that the authors believe are destroying the Coorong forever."
In good condition. Please see the photos - they form part of the description.
Some scuffing, yellowing, small marks & shelf wear to the dust jacket. There are some black marks to the front flyleaf. The boards are very good, with some shelf wear to the bottom edge. The binding is excellent. There is a name & date written on the front free endpaper, which also has a small faded area in the top corner where some writing has been erased. The pages are yellowing lightly due to age. There are very small faint yellow/brown marks to a few pages. One page has some green marks. No creased, torn or missing pages.
This is a used item to be sold "as is". I have described it as well as I can.
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