NEMARLUK: King of the Wilds (Idriess First Edition)

First Edition. Scarce. (No dustjacket). 221 p. : port. ; 19 cm #180222 (Firm, age-tanned copy. Prev ownership stamp to fpd, gift inscription to fep.))
Frontispiece Portrait of Mounted Constable Langton, whose patrol captured Tiger and Chugulla.
Nemarluk, one of the most feared Aboriginal renegades in the north of Australia, had vowed to rid his land of all intruders. This is the story of the last few years of his life, and his battles with the Northern Territory Police and their tracker Bul-Bul.
Nemarluk: King of the Wilds is a book by Ion Idriess about aboriginal warrior Nemarluk.[1][2]

Idriess met Nemarluk twice and had previously written about him in a section of his 1935 book Man Tracks. Nemarluck died in August 1940 prompting Idriess to write a book focusing on him.[3]

The Sydney Morning Herald wrote that:

Mr. Idriess has a good tale to tell—a tale of courage, animal cunning and resource, devotion to a dimly conceived ideal, and death. The confusion wrought in the aboriginal groups by the, to them, incredible treachery of the members of the tribe who accept money from the white man for information, and the use of that peculiar sensitiveness that makes the black man such an excellent “tracker”, affords material for interesting conjecture. The reader who is quite unversed in aboriginal lore would, too, find much to interest him In the accounts of tribal customs and racial prejudices.[4]