Up The Track by Douglas Lockwood

Up The Track

by Douglas Lockwood

Readers Book Club, 1966, black and white photographic plates, hardcover, dustjacket

Very Good Condition, a little edge and shelf wear, a little rubbing and bumping to edges and corners, inscription clipped from front endpaper, age toned pages, dustjacket shows some edge and shelf wear with some rubbing, bumping, chipping, creasing and tears, small missing part at back (see photographs)

“All aboard for the Northern Territory!  This book runs express to Alice Springs – well, almost – and then stops at all stations – or nearly all – to Darwin.  It is a travel book with a difference – a brisk, breezy jaunt through the great north, with, as guide and companion, an enthusiast who knows the country better, perhaps, than anyone.
the average tourist who visits the Centre and the Top End of Australia is very apt to enthuse about the landscape – the immensity of it all – the vast, chasms, gorges, stations.  Douglas Lockwood revels in all this, too, and much more besides.  You can travel Up The Track with him just as far as you please, but wherever your interest takes you, you will find he has been there first … and will buttonhole you with a yarn that sets the mood for your stay.”