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.
Gilt-lettered cloth slightly rubbed; an excellent copy.
'In 1870 Giles was engaged as second-in-command of John Ross's expedition to fix the course of the overland telegraph line' (NT 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 only 500 copies, and now out of print.
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