Exploring in the 'Seventies and the Construction of the Overland Telegraph Line
Adelaide, Friends of the State Library of South Australia, 1995 (facsimile edition)/ 1926.
Octavo, [vi], xii, 172 pages plus 4 pages of plates and a folding map.
Cloth; a fine copy.
'In 1870 Giles was engaged as second-in-command of John Ross's expedition to fix the course of the overland telegraph line' ('Northern Territory Dictionary of Biography'); this account describes the author's experiences over the following two years and five months, and was compiled from his contemporary notebooks. Australiana Facsimile Editions Number 207; one of 450 copies thus, of a total edition of only 500 copies, with the loosely inserted publisher's prospectus.
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