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Sydney: Angus and Robertson Ltd, 1943. 132 pp. Fold-out map at rear of book. Black and white frontispiece. Text illustrated with black and white potographs. Black cloth with gilt writing on both front cover and spine. The cloth is faded particularly on the bottom edges. There is bumping to the corners, and front bottom corner has loss of cloth. Top and bottom of spine a soft. There is browning of pages internally. Light foxing appears on the paper edges. Gift inscription on ffep. Material for some of this book first appeared as single articles, and at the suggestion of Sir William Mitchell, that they should be given a more permanent form, this book is a result. "The average Australian knows very little about the Centre and unfortunately the information that is most readily available is sadly lacking in accuracy. There have being many who have written of these things; but they have written after very varying experiences and apprenticeships. When Finlayson writes of the Centre and its fauna the reader may be well is sure that he is reading reality -- the reality of a man who knows these things with an and assuming familiarity.", so says F. Wood Jones in his forward.. Fourth Impression. Cloth. Average/Nil, as Issued. 8vo - up to 9 ¾" tall - Octavo. Australiana.