Australian Legendary Tales

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Good
Jacket Condition: Good
Publisher: The Bodley Head Ltd
Publisher Place: Sydney
Publisher Year: 1978
Edition: First Edition

Description: 190 pages. Book and Jacket are both in Good condition. There is some light shelf and reading wear and pencil marks on the inside page, but still a presentable copy.

Publishers Description: "The manners and rites of the natives were far the most archaic of all with which we are acquainted. Temples they had no images of gods, no altars of sacrifice; scarce any memorials of the dead. Their worship at best was offered in hymns to some vague, half-forgotten deity or First Maker of things, a god decrepit from age or all but careless of his children. Spirits were known and feared, but scarcely defined or described. Sympathetic magic, and perhaps a little hypnotism, were all their science. Kings and nations they knew not; they were wanderers..."

ISBN: 0370108418