Thomas Lowah (3 results)

Soft Cover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: None Issued. First Edition. 148 pages. Ex-Library. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in As new condition throughout.

Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 148pp, bw ills. Pictorial orange card covers. Prev owner bookplate inside front cover which has caused offset toning to title page. With Compliments stamp of the author to title page. One of the first autobiographies of a Torres Strait Islander. The author recounts his life as a diver on pearl luggers in the Torres Straight and along the Great Barrier Reef; his time in the army during WWII, and various jobs on his return including on the railways and at an Abroiginal mission in the Gulf country, finally retiring to Cairns. Size: 8vo. Crooke, Ray. (illustrator).…

Softcover. Condition: Good. This is the story of Thomas Lowah, a Torres Strait Islander born in 1914. His story tells of how heworked as a diver on a pearling lugger, sailing the waters of the Torres Strait and working down the Great Barrier Reef.Conditions were so hard that the skipper would not let the divers out of the water to eat their lunch of damper and syrup, butwould hand it down to them to eat in the water.When the war came Thomas joined the army, and at the end of the warwent back to the luggers. After a time he moved to North Queensland and worked at a number of jobs, as a rock driller,laying railway lines in the west and on an Aboriginal mission in the Gulf country. Finally he retired to live in Cairns where hewrote this story of his life.This is one of the first autobiographies of a Torres Strait Islander and a unique document of his life and the life of his people.…