Issue Details: First known date: 1937... 1937 Who Rides? Events in the Life of a West Australian Police Officer
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From frontmatter: 'Nobody would be surprised to see a new book about Scotland Yard, or America's "G" men, or Canada's "Mounties", but the West Australian Police - surely there can't be much to say about them?

True, the West Australian public are generally law-abiding, but at least once in recent history they have indulged in a minor civil war, with rifles and bombs, which the police had to settle. Also, the young policeman tramping the hot and dusty streets of Perth may have as dull a time as his opposite number tramping the most respectable suburbs of London, but he may, next week, be far from civilization in a trackless desert.

From the moment when Mr. Graves joins the Force and arrests a dead man, to that other moment nearly ten years later when, promoted over the heads of his elders out of his turn, he gave himself the sack, he really has something entertaining or vivid or vital to say.

The rough, tough life of the goldfield towns in their heyday and the ghostly abandonment of decay; the uncanny powers of aboriginal 'black trackers'; a policeman's rescue-race fourteen days across a desert - strange stories of common people told with insight and sympathy and humour.'

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • London,
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      England,
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      United Kingdom (UK),
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      Western Europe, Europe,
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      Lovat Dickson ,
      1937 .
      Extent: xiv, 287p.p.
      Description: illus.
      Note/s:
      • According to one bookseller one plate listed "North West Cannibals" reputedly removed by the publishers. The sighted copy, however, included this plate.
      • Under author name on title page: Late Officer-in-Charge Criminal Record Office, Fingerprint and Photographic Bureau, Perth, W.A.

Works about this Work

New Australian Books Frederick T. Macartney , 1937 single work review
— Appears in: All About Books , 13 September vol. 9 no. 9 1937; (p. 135-6)

— Review of Queensland Journey C. B. Christesen , 1937 single work non-fiction ; William Lane and the Australian Labor Movement Lloyd Ross , 1935 selected work prose biography ; Water into Gold : The Taming of the Mighty Murray River Ernestine Hill , 1937 single work prose ; Who Rides? Events in the Life of a West Australian Police Officer H. E. Graves , 1937 single work autobiography
New Australian Books Frederick T. Macartney , 1937 single work review
— Appears in: All About Books , 13 September vol. 9 no. 9 1937; (p. 135-6)

— Review of Queensland Journey C. B. Christesen , 1937 single work non-fiction ; William Lane and the Australian Labor Movement Lloyd Ross , 1935 selected work prose biography ; Water into Gold : The Taming of the Mighty Murray River Ernestine Hill , 1937 single work prose ; Who Rides? Events in the Life of a West Australian Police Officer H. E. Graves , 1937 single work autobiography
Last amended 8 Apr 2009 07:59:19
Subjects:
  • Western Australia,
  • ca. 1926-1936
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