Charles chewings (17 Ergebnisse)

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Zustand: New. In English.

Zustand: New. In English.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Zustand: New. In English.

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HRD. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Zustand: Hervorragend. Zustand: Hervorragend | Sprache: Englisch | Produktart: Bücher | A very detailed and intimate description of the life, personal and tribal, of the Central Australian Aboriginals; their characteristics, beliefs and superstitions; their tools and weapons; together with a discussion of the results of their contacts with the whites, their present condition and their probable future. Dr Chewings writes with the authority of personal knowledge gained by long, patient and acute observation in his travels in Central Australia from 1881 into the 1930s. A major work with photographs from the Spencer and Gillen expeditions.Australia as a land of the picturesque and the unexpected has come on to the literary map. Ernestine Hill's The Great Australian Loneliness, . Michael Terry's Sun and Sand, Dr. Charles Chewing's authoritative book on the aborigines, Back in the Stone Age, and Ion Idriess's Over the Range, . have all brought before the reading public the native beauty of Australia, her endeavours and achievements. - Adelaide Advertiser, 1937.…

, ii, pages 313-380 continued from previous issue, pages ii are advertisements, articles include Travel and Ascents in the Basardjusi District, Daghestan, Two Journeys to Ta-Tsien-Lu on the Eastern Borders of Tibet, and Central Australia, 1 folding map at rear showing Daghestan and a photo-illustration of Basardjusi, complete monthly issue First Edition , small chips to head and tail of spine, light stain to front cover, internally nice and clean, in good condition , original blue printed paper covers 24.5 x 16 cm Paperback ISBN.…

Paperback. Zustand: Very good. 8vo Includes Travel and Ascents in the Basardjusi Distict Daghestan by G.P. Baker with map; Two Journeys to Ta-Tsien-Lu on the Eastern Borders of Tibet by A.E. Pratt. 19pp. VG. Original blue print wrappers.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Adelaide, Friends of the State Library of South Australia, 2010/ [1882 to 1930]. Octavo, xxxiv, 174 pages with a frontispiece portrait and 2 maps plus a large folding map in an endpocket. Pictorial cloth; a fine copy. A collected reprint of four journeys undertaken by Chewings in 1881-82, 1883, 1885 and 1909. 'Accounts of the first three expeditions were published in the South Australian weekly newspaper, the "Observer". The 1885 report was also issued separately as a pamphlet . in 1886. The 'Geographical Journal (London) published the account of the 1909 journey in October 1930' (from the informative 27-page introduction by Valmai Hankel). The edition is limited to only 325 copies, with the first 125 copies numbered and bound in quarter leather.…

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. London, Edward Stanford for the Royal Geographical Society, 1891. Octavo, pages 343-362 (in ii, 313-380 pages with an illustration plus a folding colour lithographed map). Original printed wrappers slightly chipped and tanned; joints splitting; a few other minor signs of age and handling; a very good copy. Chewings offers 'a brief outline of Central Australia and its prospects', with an introductory summary on exploration; the main emphasis is on geology.The other contributions to this volume are BAKER, G.P.: 'Travel and Ascents in the Basardjusi District, Daghestan' (with a folding colour map), and PRATT, A.E.: 'Two Journeys toTa-tsien-lu on the Eastern Borders of Tibet'.…

Paperback. Zustand: Fine. First Edition. Adelaide, RSSA. Octavo, [8] pages plus a plate. Original wrappers; a fine copy. This issue also contains SCHULZE, Reverend Louis: The Aborigines of the Upper and Middle Finke River. Their Habits and Customs, with introductory Notes on the Physical and Natural-History Features of the Country (37 pages). Schulze was a missionary of fourteen years standing in the region at the time the article was written (in German; this translation, from the manuscript, is by J.G.O. Tepper).…

4to; pp. xxiv, 162; endpaper map, portrait frontispiece, 22 illustrations, index, original black cloth a touch faded on spine, title lettered in gilt on spine and front board, a very good copy. . First Edition.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Adelaide, Friends of the State Library of South Australia, 2010 (first thus)/ [1882 to 1930]. Octavo, xxxiv, 174 pages with a frontispiece portrait and 2 maps plus a large folding map in an endpocket. Quarter calf and pictorial cloth; a fine copy. Number 92 of only 125 copies of the deluxe issue (in a total edition of just 325 copies). A collected reprint of four journeys undertaken by Chewings in 1881-82, 1883, 1885 and 1909. 'Accounts of the first three expeditions were published in the South Australian weekly newspaper, the "Observer". The 1885 report was also issued separately as a pamphlet . in 1886. The "Geographical Journal" (London) published the account of the 1909 journey in October 1930' (from the informative 27-page introduction by Valmai Hankel).…