Islands of Men

Octavo, [23.75cm/9.25inches], full gilt-embossed sylvan-green cloth sans dust jacket, pp. 248. Illustrated with b-w halftones &tc. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. . After a stint in advertising and journalism, Edwin Colin Simpson,(1908–1983)published Adam in Ochre (1951), which sold 56,000 copies in the next twenty years, attracted international attention and popularised the realisation that Indigenous Australians were not dying out.His only novel, Come Away, Pearler, was released in 1952. He then focussed several books on New Guinea Aborigines, including Adam with Arrows (1953) Adam in Plumes (1954),and Islands of Men (1955). In 1963 Simpson became a founding member of the Australian Society of Authors and, after visiting Scandinavia, led the ASA campaign for Public Lending Right, publicising the issue by withholding The New Australia from libraries in 1971. Three years later PLR was achieved; his role was recognised with his appointment as OBE in 1981. Another cause he promoted was the humane treatment of animals.