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Very Good. 1978 paperback/as pictured/nice copy with just a little shelf wear to cover and pages/text clean of marks/binding solid/"Pastor Carl Strehlow served at the German Lutheran Mission of Hermannsburg from 1894 until his death in 1922. Hermannsburg is located on the Finke River in the western MacDonnel Ranges in central Australia. During this period, Strehlow had a marked impact on the Aranda, not only as a European of recognized leadership, but one who deeply felt that Aranda traditions must be recorded and perpetuated with the mission setting. The concern for the Aranda, who were undergoing drastic changes in the contract situation with the homesteaders, ranchers, etc., became Strehlow's major cause of being in a world filled with opposing demands.T.G.H. Strehlow, the son and now the recognized authority on the Aranda, has written a beautiful, lucid, and moving account of Pastor Strehlow's last battle which took a dying man from Hermannsburg Mission on a 160 mile journey of desert heat, dust, and agony by buggy down the Finke River to his final resting place at Horseshoe Bend. In the end Strehlow's coffin was made from old whisky boxes and each of his old bushman "mates" was willed the final mark of compassion and love-a bottle of whisky..." (Reviewed by Aran Yengoyan, University of Michigan)