An Australian Youth among Desert Aborigines. Journal of an Expedition among the Aborigines of Central Australia. With an introduction by Charles P. Mountford
Adelaide, Libraries Board of South Australia, 1964 [first and only edition].
Quarto, [iv], 123 pages with a few illustrations plus 19 plates and a folding map; loosely inserted is a printed note from the publisher regarding Appendices 2 and 3, referred to but not included in the journal ('They were incomplete at the time of Mr Sheard's death').
Cloth lightly marked; essentially a fine copy of a scarce book.
Lauri Sheard accompanied Charles Mountford as his assistant on an Adelaide University Field Expedition to Ernabella, the Musgraves, Mann Ranges, Ayers Rock and Mt Olga in 1940. Sheard's promising life was cut short by the war. Provenance: the anthropologist Peter Sutton, with his signature on the front flyleaf.
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