BAUME, F.E.

Tragedy Track. The Story of The Granites

Sydney, Frank C. Johnson, 1933.

Octavo, [ii], 189 pages plus 54 plates and endpaper maps.

Black cloth with paper title-labels on the spine and front cover; cloth moderately flecked, with slight loss; edges a little discoloured and foxed, with occasional scattered light foxing elsewhere; a good copy (internally very good).

An account of Cecil Madigan's expedition to The Granites, 380 miles north-west of Alice Springs, which put paid to a goldrush (the 'tragedy' of the title).

Provenance: Dick Kimber (Richard Glyn Kimber AM, 1939-2024), Centralian author and historian, with his neat ownership signature on the front free endpaper.

Item #146876

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