Charles Hawker by K. L. Needham Animal Dreaming residue of paste-down and pencil

residue of paste-down and pencil notes on inside front cover (see photographs)

and reveals his eccentricities—from his writing letters to his dead parents to his flirting with Catholicism despite his doubts

and practice of Islam from its earliest origins up to its contemporary resurgence

Annabella Boswell's Journal

Charles Hawker by K. L. Needham Animal Dreaming residue of paste-down and pencilCharles Hawker Soldier Pastoralist Statesman by K. L. Needham Adelaide, 1969, [First Edition], b w photographic plates, b w portrait frontispiece, hardcover, dustjacket Very Good Condition, minor edge and shelf wear, institute stickers to front end papers, small chips to dustjacket 'This biography is about a great Australian. Charles Hawker was a soldier, pastoralist, statesman, and above all, a man of immense courage and dignity. The appropriateness