Gum Trees in South Australia by Margaret Saddler
Gum Trees in South Australia by Margaret Saddler
Gum Trees in South Australia
Text by Margaret Saddler
Drawings by Nancy Gemmell
Investigator Press, 1969, [First Edition], black and white illustrations, illustrated endpapers, hardcover, dustjacket
Very Good Condition, some edge and shelf wear, some rubbing and bumping to edges and corners, ex library with stamps, stickers and tape residue to front and back endpapers, tape residue to covers, small tick in red ink to one or two pages, light markings in red ink to index, one or two pages have small marks, dustjacket shows some edge and shelf wear with some rubbing, bumping, creasing, chipping and small tears to edges, corners, spine and covers (see photographs)
“Margaret Saddler and Nancy Gemmell are sisters, daughters of C. M. Hambridge, a former Surveyor-General of South Australia. They spent their girlhood “bashing around in the scrub at Mt. Lofty” and this undoubtedly helped to develop their interest in the gum trees of South Australia. Mrs. Saddler, an active and practical conservationist and former secretary of the Nature Conservation Society of SA, lives in the foothills suburb of Stonyfell in a setting dominated by magnificent eucalypts. Mrs. Gemmell, who studied for six years under Ivor Hele at the SA School of Arts, is the wife of Strathalbyn grazier and is justifiably proud of the extensive garden which surrounds the “Springfield” homestead.”