An Australian Youth among Desert Aborigines. Journal of an Expedition among the Aborigines of Central Australia. With an Introduction by Charles P. Mountford
Adelaide, Libraries Board of South Australia, 1964 [first and only edition].
Quarto, [iv], 123 pages with a few illustrations plus 19 plates and a folding map; loosely inserted is a printed note from the publisher ('Appendices 2 and 3, which are referred to in the Journal have not been included. They were incomplete at the time of Mr Sheard's death').
Cloth slightly flecked and marked, and lightly rubbed and bumped at the extremities; new endpapers; the map was detached at one time, and is now a little foxed and creased, with three small tape-stains at one end, and the author's name written in ink in the margin at the other end; trifling signs of age and use; a very good copy.
Lauri Sheard accompanied Charles Mountford as his assistant on an Adelaide University Field Expedition to Ernabella, the Musgraves, Mann Ranges, Ayers Rock and Mt Olga in June-October 1940. He was eighteen at the time; he died in an air crash on active service over New Guinea in 1942.
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