'Native Rose' Michael Driscoll and Brett Whiteley, published by Richard Griffin, New South Wales, 1986
Poems by Michael Driscoll inspired by Kata Tjuta (The Olgas), sacred place of the Anangu, the traditional owners of Uluru-Kata Tjuta in what is now known as Australia’s Northern Territory. Illustrated by Brett Whiteley. The book responds to both the beauty of Kata Tjuta and the mythology constructed around the Nineteenth-century European explorer Ernest Giles who led the first European expedition to Kata Tjuta in 1872. Double-page maps and many full-page and double-page col. and b/w plates.
Title: Native Rose
Author: Michael Driscoll and Brett Whiteley
Publisher: Richard Griffin
Publication date: 1986 (1st Edition)
Binding: Folio softcover
Size: 40 x 32cm. Pages: 64pp
Condition: Near Fine. Lower left corner cover bumped. Otherwise a fine copy
Provenance: From the library of Dr Simon Pierse
Poems by Michael Driscoll inspired by Kata Tjuta (The Olgas), sacred place of the Anangu, the traditional owners of Uluru-Kata Tjuta in what is now known as Australia’s Northern Territory. Illustrated by Brett Whiteley. The book responds to both the beauty of Kata Tjuta and the mythology constructed around the Nineteenth-century European explorer Ernest Giles who led the first European expedition to Kata Tjuta in 1872. Double-page maps and many full-page and double-page col. and b/w plates.
Title: Native Rose
Author: Michael Driscoll and Brett Whiteley
Publisher: Richard Griffin
Publication date: 1986 (1st Edition)
Binding: Folio softcover
Size: 40 x 32cm. Pages: 64pp
Condition: Near Fine. Lower left corner cover bumped. Otherwise a fine copy
Provenance: From the library of Dr Simon Pierse
Poems by Michael Driscoll inspired by Kata Tjuta (The Olgas), sacred place of the Anangu, the traditional owners of Uluru-Kata Tjuta in what is now known as Australia’s Northern Territory. Illustrated by Brett Whiteley. The book responds to both the beauty of Kata Tjuta and the mythology constructed around the Nineteenth-century European explorer Ernest Giles who led the first European expedition to Kata Tjuta in 1872. Double-page maps and many full-page and double-page col. and b/w plates.
Title: Native Rose
Author: Michael Driscoll and Brett Whiteley
Publisher: Richard Griffin
Publication date: 1986 (1st Edition)
Binding: Folio softcover
Size: 40 x 32cm. Pages: 64pp
Condition: Near Fine. Lower left corner cover bumped. Otherwise a fine copy
Provenance: From the library of Dr Simon Pierse
