Author: ARMOUR, JOHN.
Title: The Spell Of The Inland.
Description: First Edition; 8vo; pp. 280; frontispiece; 22 b/w plates; original red boards with title in black on spine and front, spine faded, previous owners bookplate on front endpaper; otherwise a good copy. Melbourne Publishing Company, 1923. The author was Minister for the Australian Inland Mission and set this perhaps only partly fictional collection of stories in Central Australia with fascinating photographic illustrations [camels pulling a cart, Aborigines in full regalia] and helps preserve memories of a fascinating and unique way of life.

Keywords: detective Fiction Australia Crime Central