09/01/2024
The Blue of Capricorn book cover design concept.
𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗕𝗹𝘂𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗖𝗮𝗽𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗼𝗿𝗻 𝘉𝘺 𝘌𝘶𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘦 𝘉𝘶𝘳𝘥𝘪𝘤𝘬 𝟷𝟿𝟼𝟷
From the dust jacket:
“This is the northern limit of Eugene Burdick’s Oceania. He completes its boundaries with the huge stone faces of Easter Island, the out-back of Australia, the unbelievable bit of English countryside that rims Tasmania. This book is an exploration of a world rich in paradox and in drama, a modern world of polyglot islanders and of ancient primitive savages, a physical world of languorous beauty and uncompromising rigors.
Some of its story must be told factually. The ocean itself is described in terms of its surface currents, the life in its tremendous depths, its winds, and the migrations of its birds. Some of it must be told in terms of its peoples - their histories and their customs forming the frame for individual portraits of the Maori, the Polynesian, the Aborigine. And some must be told as fiction to do justice to the subtle interplay of forces between the islander and the invader, the islander and the limitations of his tiny world, the foreigner and his acceptance of exoticism.”
