Where the Seasons Come and Go by Eric Bonython

Where the Seasons Come and Go

by Eric Bonython

The Hawthorn Press, 1971, [First Edition], black and white photographic plates, illustrated endpapers (maps), black and white photographic frontispiece, hardcover, dustjacket

Very Good Condition, a little edge and shelf wear, a little rubbing and bumping to edges and corners, previous owners’ inscription on front endpaper, gift inscription on half title page, red ink stain at top centre of front endpapers and top corner of front cover, dustjacket shows some edge and shelf wear with some rubbing, bumping, chipping, small tears, discolouration and small parts missing at edges (see photographs)

“This book contains several stories, interwoven by chance and circumstance and set down by Eric Bonython because he loved the country where they took place – the Cooper country.
It tells of the days when Lutheran missionaries attempted to civilise the aborigines and relates the subsequent history of their land grant, which eventually passed to Major Powell and his English wife Beryl.  Drought, creeping sand hills, flies, dust-storms and lack of capital finally drove the Powells back to Adelaide, where Bonython (who had worked as jackaroo on an adjoining property) learned of their story and marvelled at their endurance.”