Nomads of the Australian Desert.

This is a rare or used book from the Berkelouw Rare Books Department.

(Adelaide): Rigby (1976). Thick sm. 4to. Orig. cloth. Spine gilt. Dustjacket. (628 pp.). With b/w frontisp. map num. full-page col. and b/w illusts. and 1 fold. col. plate. 1st ed. Fine. NOTE: As the secret and sacred rites of the Aborigines are herein recorded the publication was withdrawn and suppressed from sale soon after publication; hence few copies remain in circulation. Of all of Mountford's work this narrative of the 1940 University of Adelaide Expedition to the Western Desert published in the last year of his life is considered by many to be his most important.