Across Australia By the Indian-Pacific by Adam-Smith, Patsy - 1971

Nelson, Melbourne, 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. III, 4-82 pages. Text illustrated with coloured and black and white photographs, taken by Lindsay Rodda. Photographic endpapers. Illustrated boards showing a photograph of a India Pacific locomotive. Red and blue titles to the front panel and backstrip. Bumping and rubbing to the book corners and to the backstrip edges. There is a slight cocking of the spine. Some rubbing and marking of the laminate. Some marks to the endpapers and some handling marks to the internal text. The India-Pacific Railway transverses Australia from Sydney to Perth, in one unbroken gauge. Patsy Adam-Smith & Lindsay Rodda travelled the 2461 miles of this track and this book is a result. "All excitement of this tremendous rail-trip is captured by the vital narrative of the author and intensified by Lindsay Rodda's dramatic and evocative photographs.".  Size: Folio (over 12" tall ). Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Category: History; Travel ; Photography; Transport -- Railways; Australia; ISBN: 0170019535. ISBN/EAN: 9780170019538. Inventory No: 0107933. . 9780170019538