Man Tracks

by Ion Idriess

Angus and Robertson, 1951, black and white photographic plates, black and white photographic frontispiece, illustrated endpapers (maps), hardcover

Very Good Condition, some edge and shelf wear, some rubbing and bumping to edges and corners, torn off corners on some plates, no inscriptions, some markings and discoloration to covers and spine (see photographs)

“This book of the life and work of the mounted police in Australian wilds is what the Mounteds would probably call a “patrol job”.  Well, the mounted patrols have helped open up much new country for our stockmen and miners… My principle qualifications for writing Man Tracks are: personal acquaintance with most of the men concerned, a share in a twelve-hundred-mile patrol through the last wild area of the Kimberleys, and twenty-five years’ wanderings in the interior (often with the blacks) by which I have gained a knowledge of the country, and an understanding of the mentality of the aborigines, that can be learned in no other way…”

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