Outback Heroes

Cornstalk Publishing, Sydney, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Good. Illustrator: Photographic. published sources and sources of illustrations. The text is illustrated with numerous contemporary black and white illustrations and photographs and the occasional colour illustration and photograph. Dark brown coloured boards with white coloured titles to the backstrip. Colour photographic dustwrapper with white coloured titles in the front panel and backstrip. Black and white photograph of author to the rear fold over panel. A history of the unsung, and generally unknown, heroes of pioneering Australia – the men, women, children and others who opened up a vast, unforgiving land to settlement. For, as the rear panel blurb states, "... Yet those of us who have never known the Outback intimately, as Patsy Adam-Smith's does, tend to forget the realities of life that confronted our forebears in the bush, and what guts it took to survive them." Rubbing to the backstrip corners with rubbing and bumping of the book corners. Some scattered foxing to the first couple and last page. Size: 4to 9¾" - 12" tall. [7], 8-255, [1] pages,. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Photographic. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: History; Indigenous Culture; Australia; Sociology & Culture. ISBN: 0701815620. ISBN/EAN: 9780701815622. Inventory No: 0270337. . 9780701815622