Search Results: Australian Exploration from N & A Smiles

Sydney: Angus & Robertson 1961 Fifth Printing, 1961 Good reading copy. Contains extracts from a number of pioneering works, dating from 1837 to 1954.

Melbourne: State Library of Victoria 1995 First Edition Trade Paperback xxx,194pp ill. ISBN 0-724-10007-8, 1995 Very Fine original illustrated self-wrappers, illustrated with 16 pages of b&w plates, plus 3 maps. Signed on title page by Kim Lockwood. John McKinlay was the first European to lead a team acrosss the Australian continent from the south coast to the north and return safely. The journey resulted from McKinlay's being chosen to lead the South Australian Burke Relief Expedition (although Burke and Wills were dead before he set out). It was a harrowing trip, complete with intense heat, floods, fliies and starvation that was relieved near the end of the trip by camels' feet soup. On a second expedition three years later McKinlay was stranded by the Wet season in western Arnhem Land, in the Northern Territory. He saved his party of fifteen by building a punt from saplings and sailing for six days and nights down the swollen East Alligator River out into the Arafura Sea and back to the… Read More

Adelaide: Corkwood Press 1999-2003 Special Editions 6 vols 8vo, 1999 Very Fine leather-bound matching set of all six of Len Beadell's often humorous autobiographical writings detailing his pioneering road-building projects throughout the Central Australian deserts on behalf of the Woomera Rocket Range. Each volume is beautifully bound in kangaroo leather, with gilt titles, gilt maps to covers, map end-papers, and illustrated with b&w and colour photographs and Len's original line drawings. A special limited edition of 50 copies of each volume, each volume offered here being no.41 of the series. Blast the Bush is autographed by Len's widow Anne Beadell, and his children, Connie Sue Beadell and Gary Beadell, after whom two of the great outback highways are named. Too Long in the Bush is also signed & inscribed by Anne Beadell, and Bush Bashers is signed and inscribed by Connie Sue Beadell. A magnificent set that does justice to Len Beadell's writings, and looks great on the shelf.

Alice Springs: Max Cartwright 1994 First Edition 8vo vii,110pp, 1994 VG+ original illustrated card wrappers, slightly rubbed, internally fine. Page 110 is pasted onto verso of rear cover & contains the article on the Settlement at Docker River referred to on page 98 - missing from some copies. Scarce.

Adelaide: Adelaide: Corkwood Press 1999 Limited Facsimile Edition 8vo 207pp + maps, 1999 Very Fine original blue leather, gilt titles, with 2 large folded maps printed on high quality paper in matching slip-case. This edition is an accurate facsimile of the original edition of 1893, produced by arrangement with the Royal Geographical Society of South Australia. The maps are the geographical & geological versions, both measuring 60" x 30". The geological map has colour features added. Another high quality production from Corkwood Press. This edition was limited to 50 copies bound in blue leather & 350 bound in buckram, however production difficulties resulted in only 38 leather copies being produced. This is set No.42 of the leather bound edition.

Perth: Victoria Park: Hesperian Press 1981 Facsimile Edition First Thus, 1981 Fine. Wrap-around cover art by Leone Ferrier.

Sydney: Edwards & Shaw 1962 8vo 232pp ill., 1962 Near Fine original cloth boards, very light soiling to boards, otherwise a very attractive copy, Fine throughout. Map end-papers illustrating a plan for the intended Town of Australind and the Kimberley Division. Illustrations include Natives along Canning Stock Route.

Sydney: Sydney: Hachette 2015 First Trade Paperback Printing, 2015 Near Fine

London: Jonathan Cape 1937 First British Edition, Second Impression cr.8vo 237pp , 1937 Near Fine original tan cloth, occasional mild foxing, heavier at edges, otherwise a solid copy, very clean throughout, in Good edgeworn and slightly chipped unclipped DW. A very attractive copy of a scarce edition.

Adelaide: Rigby (Seal Books 04770) 1970 First Paperback Edition ISBN: 0-85179-061-5, 1970 VG+

Adelaide: Adelaide: Rigby Limited (Seal Books 01669) 1969 First Seal Books Paperback Printing, 1969 Near Fine. Light edgewear, light crease adjacent to spine, illustrated with numerous monochrome plates. A classic of Australian exploration, describing the building of the Gunbarrel Highway across the Gibson Desert by Len Beadell's Gunbarrel Road Construction Party from 1955-1958. Signed and Inscribed by the Author.

Sydney: Sydney: Weldon Publishing/New Holland Publishers; Lansdowne Publishing 1990-2000 Trade Paperback Reprint ISBN 1-86302-405-0, 1990 VG to Near Fine matching set, despite different imprints. The story of Len Beadell's Gunbarrel Road Construction Party as they surveyed and built their "highways" across the deserts of Central Australia.