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Maryborough, Victoria, Australia: Joyce Downing, 1991. (vi) + 185pp., green, half-tone plate endpapers. Several colour plates, plus numerous b/white, candidly-illustrated, half-tone plates and a few facsimiles. Book clean and square. Bright gilt title on spine. Green faux-leather boards undamaged. Leaves clean. Edition limited to 150 copies: this copy hand-signed and numbered '67', by Joyce Downing, on the colophon. Art-illustrated (lino print on rice paper, Trish Walsh) dustjacket mildly edgeworn and abraded, clear tape on verso folds. Constructed from 'letters home', with connecting narrative by her younger sister/editor Joyce, this is the story of Doris Downing, a missionary teacher, who gave so much of her life to the people of Papua New Guinea . . . born in Victoria in 1900, she died in 1976. Contents include: Prelims., Intro., Mitchell River, Sunshine-Melbourne, Egualua-Greetings, Clouds of War, Post-War Reconstruction, Papua New Guinea Revisited, Doris's Death, In Loving…
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The Bridle Path : Doris Downing, her life and letters. Hardcover - 1991
by DOWNING, Joyce (ed).
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- Title The Bridle Path : Doris Downing, her life and letters.
- Author DOWNING, Joyce (ed).
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Publisher Editor, Maryborough (Vic)
- Date 1991
- ISBN 9780646056388
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THE BRIDLE PATH : Doris Downing-Her Life and Letters. (Signed Copy)
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