To the Desert with Sturt: A Diary of the 1844 Expedition Tapa dura - 1975

Australia: The Royal Geographical Society of Australia, 1975. Hardcover. Near Fine/very good. 6 x 9 in. Tan cloth boards. Condition is NEAR FINE ; covers like near new, binding tight, text unmarked. DJ is VERY GOOD ; minor edge wear, a bit rubbed. Aus. Stax.

Royal Geographical Society of Australasia, South Australia, 1975. Facsimile Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/Good. preface and introduction by Kenneth Peake - Jones, facsimile pages from Sturt's journal, facsimile reproduction of two pages of Brock's diary entries. Coloured frontispiece, of the painting of Daniel Brock " At Poole's Grave". Endpaper maps, showing Sturt's tracks and discoveries. Pale green coloured cloth covered boards with gilt coloured titles to the backstrip. Illustrated dustwrapper, showing the same illustration as frontispiece with black coloured titles to the front panel and black and white coloured titles to the backstrip. This book was not intended for public release, it was a son's diary written day-by-day for his mother. The tone of the work is at variance with Sturt's own publication, being enthusiastic, grief stricken, angry, fearful and frustrated by turns (as opposed to the impersonal and… Leer más

The Royal Geographical Society Of Australasia South Australian Branch, Adelaide1975.. 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. hardcover. 222pp. colour frontis. Very good+. / Very good d/w with faded spine. .