381 pages, plus Contents. Apart from minor pencil highlighting along the blank outer edge, a clean, unmarked and solid copy. Egon Erwin Kisch (1885-1948), was journalist and communist. " The right-wing Australian government [1934 - Joseph Lyons]]refused Kisch entry from the ship Strathaird at Fremantle and Melbourne because of his previous exclusion from the UK. Kisch then took matters into his own hands. He jumped five metres from the deck of his ship onto the quayside at Melbourne, breaking his leg in the process...." (wikipedia)