Brown Men and Red Sand. Wanderings in Wild Australia
Melbourne, Robertson and Mullens Limited, 1948.
Octavo, xvi (last blank), 181, [1] (colophon) pages with a map plus a colour frontispiece, 62 plates and endpaper maps.
Cloth; top corner of one leaf of plates dog-eared before trimming; an excellent copy with the dustwrapper a little rubbed and chipped at the extremities, and lightly sunned on the spine.
Provenance: Charles Warren Bonython, with his armorial bookplate on the front pastedown. Warren Bonython (1916-2012), engineer, conservationist, and epic walker; one of his enduring legacies was his pivotal role in establishing the 1200-kilometre Heysen Trail.
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