Australia and Back
by Cobham, Alan Sir K.B.E
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
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About This Item
London: A & C Black. 1926. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Good condition. No dustjacket. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. Map to front endpaper. Presentation plate to prelims. Light foxing to endpapers & Some flecking to front cover. Foreword by The Rt. Hon. S.M. Bruce [Prime Minister of Australia]. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 124 pages. On 30 June 1926, Cobham set off on a flight from Britain (from the River Medway) to Australia, where 60,000 people swarmed across the grassy fields of Essendon Airport [Melbourne], when he landed his de Havilland DH.50 floatplane (it had been converted to a wheeled undercarriage earlier, at Darwin). During the flight to Australia, Cobham's engineer of the D.H.50 aircraft, Arthur B. Elliot, was shot and killed after they left Baghdad on 5 July 1926. The return flight was undertaken over the same route. . 1st Edition. Hardback.
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- Bookseller
- Adelaide Booksellers (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- BIB225591
- Title
- Australia and Back
- Author
- Cobham, Alan Sir K.B.E
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used -
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- A & C Black
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1926
- Bookseller catalogs
- Aviation;
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