Fair Dinkum by Douglas Lockwood

Fair Dinkum

by Douglas Lockwood

Cassell & Company, 1960, [First Edition],  black and white photographic plates, hardcover, dustjacket

Very Good Condition, a little edge and shelf wear, a little rubbing and bumping to edges and corners, no inscriptions, foxing to fore-edges, price-clipped dustjacket shows some edge and shelf wear with some rubbing, bumping, chipping, creasing and small tears (see photographs)

“Fair Dinkum stories about fair dinkum Aussies.  Here is another collection of not-so-tall stories by the author of Crocodiles and Other People – stories collected in the torrid Northern Territory, where distances are measured in pints of water, and time goes unheeded.  Douglas Lockwood, Press correspondent for the Melbourne Herald group, has the largest news-beat in the world.  Here in Fair Dinkum we meet more NT people than animals – and they number some rich characters among them.
The author has some fantastic and sensational stories to unfold, too – of the fierce bombing of Darwin in 1942 by the Japanese (Lockwood was there under the bombs) and the dramatic curtain to the famous Petrov Case, when he secured a world news-scoop.  These and many more yarns, assuming, tragic, historical and even supernatural, go to make this entertaining book by a leading Australian newsman.”