Australia Through the Windscreen by William Hatfield

Australia Through the Windscreen

by William Hatfield

Angus and Robertson, 1941, [First Edition], hardcover

Good Condition, some edge and shelf wear, some rubbing and bumping to edges and corners previous owners’ details stamp to front and back endpapers (see photographs)

In 1936 William Hatfield, travels to Sydney, Brisbane, western Queensland, the Barkly Tablelands, Darwin, the Kimberleys, Derby, Broome, Marble Bar, Meekatharra, Perth, Kalgoorlie, Adelaide, Mt Gambier, Melbourne and back to Sydney in a Hillman Minx car at the invitation of the representatives of the manufacturers to prove its quality. On the way Hatfield considers the European settling and developing of the "hundreds of thousands of square miles of untouched country awaiting occupation once government action by Britain and Australia ends the isolation of the Empty North".

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