The Australians by Robert B. Goodman and George Johnston

The Australians

by Robert B. Goodman and George Johnston

Rigby, 1967, [Second Edition], full colour and black and white photographs throughout, hardcover with embossed and textured boards, dustjacket

Very Good Condition, some edge and shelf wear, some rubbing and bumping to edges and corners, previous owners’ inscription front endpaper, minor markings to covers, dustjacket in good condition with some rubbing, bumping, chipping and creasing (see photographs)

“In the world of books, this is a rare hybrid – an intensely personal vision of a young country that in the telling grants precedence to neither the art of photography nor of writing.  Her, both are seen together, each illuminating the other.
Four years in the making, the book brings together two remarkably different talents.  Robert G. Goodman, a distinguished American photographer and former staff member of the National Geographic Magazine, first visited Australia on assignment in 1962.  He returned in 1963 with his family to produce and photograph this book.
Goodman’s photography has won him international renown; it has appeared in major magazines, in New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, and in other museums and art galleries throughout the United States and Canada.
George Johnston, author of the novel “My Brother Jack” and one of his country’s most gifted writers, is a fifth generation Australian.  After fourteen years abroad, he returned to his homeland to write this book’s 50,000 word text.
The result is a stimulating look at the Australians as a new and fascinating race of people.  Here in incisive pictures and vivid words we see them conducting their struggle against the pitiless land and meeting the illimitable challenges of their future.”