On the Wallaby

Quest and Adventure in Many Lands

by Charles Barrett

Robertson & Mullens, 1942, [First Edition], black and white photographic plates, black and white photographic endpapers, hardcover, dustjacket

Very Good Condition, some edge and shelf wear, some rubbing and bumping to edges and corners, no inscriptions, dust jacket in fair condition with tears, chips, rubbing, a little discolouration and small parts missing (spine) (see photographs)

“On the Wallaby is the chronicle of an unending quest for the rare, the beautiful, and for the hitherto untasted and novel experience.
And this quest has led Australia’s popular nature writer Charles Barrett far afield, not only throughout the length and breadth of Australia, but on an adventurous voyage upon the Nile, to the beauty haunted jungles of Bali, home of the rare orchid and the beauteous brown dancing girls, to the Holy Land and to Egypt with their Biblical and pre-history associations; also as a soldier – naturalist – writer – archaeologist to desert adventures in Sinai, and rambles in Nubia.
But rare orchids are also to be found in Australia’s Never Never and there, too, Charles Barrett has wandered, finding everywhere interest and rarity and not alone orchids, but other plants; birds and reptiles too, all lending a new enchantment to On the Wallaby.”

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