Item #115245 Private Journal of W.H. Tietkens on an Expedition to the Nullarbor Plain, February 1879 to January 1880. W. H. TIETKENS.
Private Journal of W.H. Tietkens on an Expedition to the Nullarbor Plain, February 1879 to January 1880
Private Journal of W.H. Tietkens on an Expedition to the Nullarbor Plain, February 1879 to January 1880

Private Journal of W.H. Tietkens on an Expedition to the Nullarbor Plain, February 1879 to January 1880

North Adelaide, Corkwood Press, 1998 [first thus]/ 1961.

Octavo, viii, 43 pages with a map.

Cloth; slight marking of the text near the inner margins (a production flaw); a fine copy.

Number 234 of only 400 numbered copies; first published from the original manuscript in 1961 by the Weapons Research Establishment, Salisbury, SA. From the 2-page introduction by Richard Barnes (unique to this edition); Tietkens 'was invited by a wealthy Scot, Louis Leisler, to mount an expedition, the subject of this diary, into the western portion of South Australia, with a view to opening it up to pastoralism'.

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