The Last Explorer; Hubert Wilkins - Australia's Unknown Hero

pict trade paper, 346 pages, maps, illustrated, 16 pp of b & w illusts. from photographs, 2 pp blbliography, index, signed by author to former owner on half title, a clean, tight copy. The story of Hubert Wilkins, war hero, photographer, reporter, prolific writer, spy, scientist, naturalist, ornitholigist and gifted aviator, a most remarkable twentieth century explorer -no one before or since has discovoured more previously unknown land and sea. yet most Australians would not recognize the name. (so I am told)