Item #133713 Savage Life in Central Australia. G. HORNE, G. AISTON.
Savage Life in Central Australia
Savage Life in Central Australia
Savage Life in Central Australia

Savage Life in Central Australia

London, Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1924.

Octavo, xii, 184 pages plus 90 plates (on 41 pages) and a folding map (325 × 275 mm).

Gilt-pictorial cloth lightly marked and rubbed; leading edge slightly marked; offset tape marks to the leading corners of both free endpapers; a near-fine copy.

The 'country, the habits and customs as well as the beliefs of the Wonkonguru and their neighbours [east of Lake Eyre] ... For the last eight or nine years Mr Aiston has dwelt at Mungeranie, although more than twenty years he has spent in aborigines' haunts ... Above all an incalculable debt of gratitude is due to Sir Baldwin Spencer, who not once, but several times, read through and corrected the manuscript'.

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