228 pages, illustrated with black and white photos.The jacket is chipped at the edges, with minor loss at the tail of the back one and with a short tear at the head of the spine.The body of the book is in excellent condition, clean, unmnarked and solid. "In 1932, Ion Idriess was one of those who set out from tiny port of Derby with the ending of the Wet season, moving through the rugger Kimberleys towards the developing goldfield of Tennant's Creek. This is the story of his wanderings in the 1930s and what he heard and saw along the way; at a time when wireless and air and motor transport were rapidly changing life in the North and North-west: but when the age of pioneers, of heroic journeys, terrifying loneliness, and violent death, had not yet passed away." (publisher later edition)