The Cry for the Dead

Based on her grandfather’s detailed diary, Judith Wright’s account of the push of pastoralists north through Queensland towards the Gulf of Carpentaria takes the reader through the mechanism for subordinating the land and its people to the economics of profit from meat and wool without any regard to the cost. It is a harrowing story of greed and destruction of environment and of indigenous society and culture.

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Date Published: 1982

Book Condition: Near fine hardcover in a dust jacket showing creasing to the top front and back edge, minor surface and edge wear. A nice copy internally.

ISBN: 0195542967