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Author Groom, Arthur, 1904-1953.

Title I saw a strange land / by Arthur Groom
Published Sydney : Angus and Robertson, 1950

Copies

Location Call no. Vol. Availability
 W'PONDS  919.429 Gro  AVAILABLE
Description 216 pages, 31 unnumbered page of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 22 cm
Contents Includes index
Summary Account of journey through the Centre in 1946-49; Hermannsburg Mission, history and present development; Areyonga and Krichauff Range; Lake Amadeus, Ayers Rock
Notes Includes index
Library's Whelan copies have original dustjackets; 1st copy signed and inscribed in ink by the author, "No man can pass through Australia's strange, wild heart, without finding somewhere at least one great story. Arthur Groom Binna-Burra, Beechmont, Q. 12th December 1950"; 2nd copy inscribed in ink, "Happy New Year! To you from me. 1.1.51" and "J. Flynn "Lanfine" 8 Irrana St, Croydon". ANL
Bibliography Includes index
Notes Donated by Margaret Carnegie
Subject Groom, Arthur, 1904-1953 -- Travel.
Groom, Arthur, 1904-1953.
Aboriginal Australians.
SUBJECT Central Australia http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81035352 -- Description and travel. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001278
Northern Territory http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81035353 -- Description and travel http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001278 -- 1901-1950
Northern Territory http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81035353 -- Description and travel. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001278
Genre/Form Autobiographies.
LC no. 52017645