Author: FARWELL, GEORGE.
Title: Vanishing Australians. Illustrated by Douglas Maxted.
Description: Second Impression; Demy 8vo; pp. (viii), 191; numerous b/w illustrations, map endpapers, bound in original light blue cloth, title lettered in red on spine, dustjacket, previous owner's name on title page, otherwise a very good copy. Adelaide, Rigby Limited, (1963). Camel drivers, river skippers, shanty-keepers, blade-shearers, fossickers - these have vanished from the Australian scene; and following them into the shadows are the swagmen, crocodile-shooters, buffalo-hunters, old-time drovers, and many other Outback types. This book vividly recalls all their colour and character, so that the memory of them will never fade.
Keywords: Australian literature history vanishing Australians novel story
Title: Vanishing Australians. Illustrated by Douglas Maxted.
Description: Second Impression; Demy 8vo; pp. (viii), 191; numerous b/w illustrations, map endpapers, bound in original light blue cloth, title lettered in red on spine, dustjacket, previous owner's name on title page, otherwise a very good copy. Adelaide, Rigby Limited, (1963). Camel drivers, river skippers, shanty-keepers, blade-shearers, fossickers - these have vanished from the Australian scene; and following them into the shadows are the swagmen, crocodile-shooters, buffalo-hunters, old-time drovers, and many other Outback types. This book vividly recalls all their colour and character, so that the memory of them will never fade.
Keywords: Australian literature history vanishing Australians novel story
Price: AUD 25.00 = appr. US$ 17.30 Seller: Time Booksellers
- Book number: 113234
- Book number: 113234