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, limited to 500 copies 'of which 50 copies are numbered and bound in quarter leather'.
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