Beyond the Bridge Tapa dura - 1973

Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition/Fair. Foreword by C. H. Rolph, Notes and index. Blue speckled coloured boards with gilt coloured titles to the back strip. Illustrated dustwrapper with brown and green coloured titles to the front panel and back strip. The autobiography of the author in which he ruminates upon the difference between privilege and non-privileged life (he himself having been brought up in a privileged environment); he then goes on to witness the rise of a militaristic Germany from the ashes of World War I and the inevitability of the commencement of World War II; and then to the West Australian wheat belt and the pioneers of that area; and, finally on to a wealthy parish where he was in charge of building a £50,000 church in a wealthy area, giving his final rumination saying "... Christianity of the future or strike out in quite a different direction, he says, he leaving institutionalism and traditional worship for… Leer más