Moonbird People by Patsy Adam Smith

Moonbird People

by Patsy Adam Smith

Rigby, 1975
Black and white photographic plates
ISBN 0851790240
Paperback

Condition: Very Good
a little edge and shelf wear, a little rubbing and bumping to edges, corners and covers, age toned pages, no inscriptions (see photographs) 

“Moonbirds – the migratory mutton birds – homeless, it is said, since the moon fell off the face of the earth and left them behind.  Patsy Adam Smith was sent by an Australian magazine to the Furneaux group of islands, I Bass Strait, to write a documentary feature about these birds and the people whose very existence depended upon them.  The photographer who went with her stayed three days, in what he called “the end of the faming earth.” Patsy Adam Smith remained for years.”