Crossing the Dead Heart. [The Story of the 1939 Simpson Desert Expedition (dustwrapper subtitle)]
by MADIGAN, C.T
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- Hardcover
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Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
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About This Item
Melbourne: Georgian House, 1948. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. Melbourne, Georgian House, 1948/ 1946. Octavo, xiv, 171, [1] (colophon) pages plus 52 plates and a folding map. Cloth; endpapers discoloured; ownership details on the front free endpaper; a near-fine copy with the slightly chipped and marked dustwrapper. An account of the 1939 Simpson Desert Expedition. Cecil Thomas Madigan (1889-1947), geologist and explorer 'planned a ground crossing in the winter of 1939. A party of nine, including a biologist, a botanist, a photographer and a radio operator, with nineteen camels, made the exhausting crossing from Andado station in the Northern Territory to Birdsville in twenty-five days. It verified Madigan's previous conclusions that the area was a wasteland' ('Australian Dictionary of Biography').
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- Bookseller
- Michael Treloar Antiquarian Booksellers (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 138380
- Title
- Crossing the Dead Heart. [The Story of the 1939 Simpson Desert Expedition (dustwrapper subtitle)]
- Author
- MADIGAN, C.T
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Jacket Condition
- Dust Jacket Included
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Georgian House
- Place of Publication
- Melbourne
- Date Published
- 1948
- Bookseller catalogs
- South Australia;
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