A wartime-era portrait of a Top End resistance leader

First published in 1941, this is Ion Idriess's account of Nemarluk, an Aboriginal man from the Northern Territory known for his resistance to colonial intrusion and his skill in surviving the bush on his own terms.

Idriess, who had met Nemarluk and written of him earlier in Man Tracks, completed this fuller account after Nemarluk's death in 1940, drawing on tribal custom and frontier conflict to tell a story of courage and cultural collision.

A classic of Australian narrative history, of interest to readers exploring the frontier history of the Northern Territory.

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