Description

To the Islands
by Randolph Stow.

Penguin, Middlesex, UK, 1962.
First Edition, paperback. 208 pp.

Cover from a painting by Robert Jupiter.

Winner of the Miles Franklin 1958.

‘Stow reveals a shameful period in Australian history when its policy toward its Aboriginal population was unabashedly racist. An aging Heriot is chaplain of an Anglican mission in a remote part of Western Australia. Sent there to “improve” the Aborigines, Heriot has lost his faith, believes he has killed a man, and exiles himself to the wilderness.’ Humphry Bower, Kirkus Review, January 2016.

Condition: Minor fraying to front cover edges and wear to spine. Otherwise in very good condition for its age.