Journey to Horseshoe Bend
Adelaide, Rigby, 1978 [Rigby Seal paperback edition]/ 1969.
Octavo, [viii], 220 pages with a double-page map.
Colour-pictorial card covers; spine lightly sunned, with slight wear at each end; trifling signs of handling; a very good copy.
The account of the last journey, in October 1922, of the author's desperately ill father, the Reverend Carl Strehlow, overland from Hermannsburg to the railhead at Oodnadatta; Horseshoe Bend was where he died and was buried. The author, who made the trip with his father, was fourteen at the time. This classic work received the 1970 Weickhardt Award for the best general Australian book when published by Angus and Robertson in 1969.
Item #146492
Price (AUD):
$55.00