Author: HOLMES, CHARLES; Editor. Title: Walkabout Magazine: January 1956 - December 1956. Vol. 22 Numbers 1 to 12.
Description: First Editions; Roy 4to; 12 issues of this important magazine, over 500 pages in total, issues bound without their original wrappers in orange cloth, good copies. Melbourne Australian National Travel Association; 1956. Walkabout was an Australian illustrated magazine published from 1934 to 1974 combining cultural, geographic, and scientific content with travel literature. Initially a travel magazine, in its forty-year run it featured a popular mix of articles by travellers, officials, residents, journalists, naturalists, anthropologists and novelists, illustrated by Australian photojournalists. Its title derived from the supposed ‘racial characteristic of the Australian aboriginal who is always on the move. Includes contributions by many of the noted authors of the time.
Keywords: Australian Aboriginal history aborigines New Guinea exploration
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- Book number: 117700