Across the Bar : The Story of 'Simpson', the Man with the Donkey: Australia and Tyneside's Great Military Hero by Curran, Tom - 1994

Ogmios Publications, Yeronga, QLD, Australia, 1994. Hardcover (19 x 26 cm), 395 pages. ISBN: 0646165240. The book and dust jacket (dj) are in Very Good condition. Full-bound burgundy cloth with gold lettering along spine. Black pastedowns/endpapers. Illustrated with b&w and colour photographs and maps. Index. Bumped, rubbed. Slanted/skewed, cracked spine. Rolled/creased at head & foot of spine. The dj is rubbed/scuffed, chipped, with some creasing noted along edges. The dj is protected in an archival (removable) book jacket cover. "For 24 days, from the day after The Landing at Anzac, John Simpson Kirkpatrick toiled up and down the broken, overgrown track, carrying wounded soldiers from the head of Monash Valley to the beach hospital, on the back of a donkey. He worked all day and halfway into the night, totally exposed for most of the time to the rifle, machine-gun and shell fire which constantly swept the 'Valley of Death.' Several of his donkeys were killed, and some of his passengers… Read More

Queensland: Ogmios Publications, 1994. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Light shelf wear and an ownership inscription and sticker.

Ogmios Publications. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1994. Reprint. Hardcover. 0646165240 . Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 395 pages .

Yeronga: Ogmios Publications, 1994. HEAVY. Foreword Dr Michael Naughton. xvi, 395 pages, colour plates, b/w photos, maps, bibliography, index. Cloth boards in dust-jacket. The story of John Simpson Kirkpatrick who, for 24 days from the day after the Landing at Anzac, made between 12 and 15 trips a day carrying wounded soldiers on the back of a donkey from the head of Monash Valley to the beach hospital. He rescued in the region of 3,000 men.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Large 8vo.