1463 pages, includes glossary of aboriginal names and list of characters. Overseas customers please note the book weighs overs a kilo and will attract additional postage.The spine of the slipcase has a 7cm closed tear running vertically to the tail; it is also bumped and chipped at the edges and at the back, the head has been reinforced with clear tape. The body of the book has a small ownership stamp on the front end paper and a bookplate on the front paste down; up to page 48 the blank outer edge there's a small crease running vertically along the blank outer edge, a printer's fault, else the book appears unread. "In Poor Fellow My Country, Xavier Herbert returns to the region made his own in Capricornia: Northern Australia. Ranging over a period of some six years, the story is set during the late 1930s and early 1940s; ...... Winner of the Miles Franklin award on first publication in 1975, Poor Fellow My Country is masterful storytelling, an epic in the truest sense. "