Finlayson j c jean (1 risultati)

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. First Edition. Melbourne, Arbuckle, Waddell Pty. Ltd. [Printers, for the Author], 1925. Small octavo, 76 pages (first four blank) with 20 illustrations. Original green overlapping wrappers printed in gold; covers a little worn and marked; minor signs of handling; a very good copy. 'Much is being said at the present time for and against the construction of an overland railway, the possibility of large tracts of so-called desert country carrying stock and providing water from underground, and climatic conditions for the settlement of white people in the interior. This little book merely deals with what was my own experience during a sojourn of two and a half years in the centre of Australia' (foreword). Jean Finlayson spent the time (from February 1914) as a nurse at Oodnadatta Hospital; with considerable Aboriginal content.…