Author: HARRIS, CAPTAIN WALTER KILROY.
Title: Outback In Australia, Or Three Australian Overlanders. Being an account of the longest Overlanding journey ever attempted in Australia with a single horse, and including chapters on various phases of Outback Life.
Description: Fourth Edition; 8vo; pp. [viii], x, 224; map endpapers, portrait frontispiece, 29 b/w photographic plates, index; original green cloth, title lettered in gilt on spine, minor bumping to edges of cloth, spine faded, stamp to last page of index; otherwise a very good copy. London, The Colonizer, 1924. Signed by the author. Author's journey along the Murray and to Queensland frequently mentions by name the people he encounters and their companionship, coaching in the outback, rabbits. Photo illustrations include bush letterbox nailed to the side of a tree, articles on irrigation, pastoralists, mile posts on the Murray River cut into living trees, an Australian sundowner, camels, a goat team pulling a billy cart, huge tree stump, Queensland border gate and much more.

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