253 pages, illustrated with black and white plates. There is a neat gift inscription on the front page and there is intermittent foxing throughout the book and along the fore-edge, some of it quite nasty; the back end paper suffers from a closed tear horizontally along the middle. The binding is solid. "In this book, originally published in 1941, Idriess suggests a scheme for developing the Outback, with particular emphahsis on managing and harvesting water resources."The dreams of to-day are the facts of to-morrow. And if even a portion of the Plan outlined here were organized for execution immediately after the war, we would have no need to fear Depression.""