Walking the Simpson Desert by C. Warren Bonython

Walking the Simpson Desert

by C. Warren Bonython

Rigby, 1980, [First Edition], ISBN 0727011731, colour and black and white photographic plates, photographic endpapers, hardcover, dustjacket

Very Good Condition, minor edge and shelf wear, a little rubbing and bumping to edges and corners, no inscriptions; dustjacket shows a little edge and shelf wear with a little rubbing, bumping and discolouration (see photographs)

“The successful culmination of five years of thinking and planning is described in this book.  Many surprises awaited the duo on their historic crossing of what was only decades ago largely unexplored and unknown desert.  Situated mainly in the Northern Territory and overlapping into Queensland and South Australia, the desert is a series of sand-ridges about 400m apart, covering an area of three-quarters the size of Victoria.  It is a region of low rainfall with sparse vegetation and contains probably the harshest terrain in Australia.”