Item #133766 Hell's Airport and Lasseter's Lost Legacy. Lasseter's Reef, Errol COOTE.

Hell's Airport and Lasseter's Lost Legacy

Hawthorndene, Investigator Press, 1981 ('third and edited edition')/ 1934.

Octavo, 142 pages with numerous illustrations (from photographs) and a map.

Colour pictorial card covers slightly rubbed and creased; laminate lifting at the top corner; ink ownership details; a very good copy.

'Account of author's exploits as a member of Harold Lasseter's gold prospecting expedition 1930-31 [with] reference to Aranda, Luritja, Eumos and Wongapitcha (Pitjantjatjara) people in text and photograph captions' (Trove). Foreword by Sir Charles Kingsford Smith.

Item #133766

Price (AUD): $75.00