My Territory by Mike Dale

My Territory

Text by Mike Dale

Photography by Gunther Deichmann

Rigby, 1983 [First Edition], ISBN 0727017772, full colour photographs throughout, photographic end papers, photographic two-page title page, hardcover, dustjacket

Very Good Condition, a little edge and shelf wear, a little rubbing and bumping to edges and corners, dustjacket shows some edge and shelf wear with a little rubbing and bumping to edges and corners, small holes to top front edge (see photographs)

“Life in the rugged outback of the Northern Territory is a struggle for survival.  The Outback is an uncaring land, indifferent to man’s existence.  It is a land you have to learn to love; a land where both awesome beauty and pitiless harshness are commonplace.
Danger is often synonymous with beauty in the Territory.  Along the coast, glorious sunsets wash tropical beaches with burnished light, the same beaches that shelter the savage crocodile and deadly sea-wasp.  It is an uncompromising land of extremes.  Unique and startling insects, birds, reptiles, and animals abound in bushland and desert.  Weird rock formations adorn the ancient sandstone escarpment running 500 kilometres through the Top End; frozen eruptions of rock jut out of the flat, red desert plains of the Centre.”