Hard Country, Hard Men : In the Footsteps of Gregory Tapa blanda - 2000

Australia: Hale & Iremonger, 2000. slight wear to covers and cover edges, owners name front endpaper, otherwise book clean and tight. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Alexandria, New South Wales, Australia: Hale & Iremonger, 2000. 284pp. Unpaginated (14 page) colour, photographically-illustrated section, b/white illustrations intext, maps at rear. Book clean, square. Spine firm. Leaves clean. Pictorially-illustrated card wrapper has several surface scratches to rear panel. "Augustus Charles Gregory, Australia's greatest explorer, left a powerful narrative of his 1855-6 expedition to northern Australia - but that was never enough for Kieran Kelly, Sydney stockbroker, who hero-worshipped Gregory from boyhood. This book tells how Kelly turned an extraordinary dream into hard, backbreaking reality, to take men and packhorses along the same dangerous and exciting trail that Gregory blazed 144 years before . . . " Contents include: Foreword: Janet Homes a Court. Acks. Introduction: In Search of the Inland Sea. 14 chapters. Conclusion: That Band of Brothers. Postscript. Notes. Bibliography. Glossary. Maps. Book weight approx. 560g. . First Edition.… Leer más

Hale & Iremonger, 2000. Trade Paperback -- Very Good -- Clean and bright with only slight wear -- 284 pages with section of maps and another with color photography. Trade Paperback. Very Good.