SKU: B-000671

Pemulwuy The Rainbow Warrior

Author: Eric Willmot

Special Features: Maps, 1st Edition, Dust Jacket

Condition: In good condition. The dust jacket has minor scuffing around the edges. Cover has slight shelving wear to top and bottom edges. Pages are clean and tidy. No writing. Includes a newspaper article about the book.

Young Adult Australiana Historical Fiction

Australia Aboriginal Fiction Pemulwuy

Eric Willmot’s 1987 novel Pemulwuy The Rainbow Warrior re-imagines the life of the legendary Bidjigal resistance leader who defied early colonial Sydney. This first-edition hardcover from Bantam brings 18th-century Aboriginal Australia to vivid life for young-adult and adult readers drawn to Indigenous folklore and historical fiction.

The book is built for collectors: a sturdy 310-page volume with its original dust jacket, internal maps charting Pemulwuy’s country, and no prior owner’s marks. Condition is clean and tidy—pages are bright, binding tight, and only light edge-scuffing on the jacket hints at three decades on the shelf.

A bonus newspaper clipping about the novel is tucked inside, perfect for anyone curating Australian literature, Aboriginal studies, or Bantam firsts. Grab this scarce 1987 printing before it disappears like the warrior himself.

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