John Flynn Apostle to the Inland by W. Scott McPheat

John Flynn

Apostle to the Inland

by W. Scott McPheat

Hodder and Stoughton, 1963 [First Edition], colour portrait frontispiece, black and white photographic plates, illustrated end-papers (maps), hardcover, dust-jacket

Good Condition, some edge and shelf wear, tear to spine of front end-papers, ex-library with stamps to front and back end-papers, tape residue to covers and front and back end-papers, dust-jacket shows some edge and shelf wear with some rubbing and creasing (see photographs)

"A definitive biography of Flynn has long been looked for.  Here is the true story of the life and work of the man who transformed the face of inland Australia and who was the genius behind flying doctors and the famous pedal radios.  Flynn's natural greatness has been clouded by certain myths which have grown around his name; and Scott McPheat's documented story is the first genuine appraisal of this extraordinary man.  Old misconceptions about 'Flynn of the Inland' being a 'camel man' are put into right perspective, and he emerges as the typical dreamer statesman who lobbied in Government corridors and who worked all night through meticulously preparing maps of his plans for the development of the Inland."