MEMOIRS OF MIXED FORTUNES: Samuel Joseph Stuckey, a pioneer of the North and South East of South Australia, 1837-1912.
Edited by Mary Louise Simpson. Pp. 102(last colophon), 16 plates (including 4 coloured maps), appendices; demy 8vo; pictorial glazed paper wrappers, edges a trifle rubbed; Wakefield Press, Adelaide, 2014. First edition. *Inscribed and signed by the editor on the title page. 'Edited and annotated by his great-granddaughter Mary Louis Simpson, Stuckey's memoirs chart his failures and successes first hand. He explains his role in the Burke and Will tragedy, the trials of opening new grazing lands in the inhospitable north; and his wide-eyed awe during expeditions to British India (now Pakistan) to purchase camels for use in the outback. However, no event would have such an impact - nor be remembered - as the moment in 1864 when he shot and killed an aboriginal man named Pompey' ' [wrapper blurb]. Item #175629
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