To the Islands

…had an early success with To the Islands (1958), a novel that was poetic in texture and structure and that intertwined aspects of European and Aboriginal culture and belief.

Other novels include To the Islands (1958; rev. ed. 1981), a study of conflicts between a white Christian missionary and the Aborigines he attempts to control; Visitants (1979), about strange events on a Papua New Guinea island; and The Girl Green as Elderflower (1980), in which the protagonist…