Savage Life in Central Australia

HORNE, G. and G. AISTON

Verlag: Macmillan and Co., Limited, London, 1924

Beschreibung

London, Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1924. Octavo, xii, 184 pages with an illustration plus 48 pages of plates (totalling 90 illustrations from photographs) and a folding colour map (325 × 275 mm). Handsomely rebound by Sangorski and Sutcliffe in half green morocco and cloth, the spine lettered in gilt, in compartments; top edge gilt; marbled endpapers; spine lightly sunned; cloth a little mottled; minor signs of age and use; overall, an excellent copy. The 'country, the habits and customs as well as the beliefs of the Wonkonguru and their neighbours [east of Lake Eyre] . For the last eight or nine years Mr. Aiston has dwelt at Mungeranie, although more than twenty years he has spent in aborigines' haunts . Above all an incalculable debt of gratitude is due to Sir Baldwin Spencer, who not once, but several times, read through and corrected the manuscript' (from the preface by George Horne). Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 139348

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Savage Life in Central Australia

Verlag: Macmillan and Co., Limited, London

Erscheinungsdatum: 1924

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Very Good

Auflage: First Edition.