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Monthly edition. No. 1, January 1951 to No. 12, December 1951, with a total of 576 PP with b/w illustrations. Each issue with original pictorial soft cover. Light soiling or wear to some issues, o/wise a near fine run. Format: 30.5 x 24. Vol.17, No.1: In the Head-Hunters' Country in Dutch New Guinea (Donald F. Thomson), By Canoe down the Shoalhaven (J.W. Pearson), The Story of the Great Barrier Reef (William J. Dakin), The Petrified Aboriginal (H.A. Lindsay). Vol.17, No.2: Robert Louis Stevenson and the South Seas (David Gunston), The Aboriginal Rock Carvings of Eastern N.S.W. (John Meredith & Brian Loughlin). Vol. 17, No.3: The Golden Labyrinth (John Béchervaise), The Volcano at Tanna (Capt. Brett Hilder), Cannibal Country, The Savage Country of the Adelbert Range (Arnold M. Maahs). Vol 17, No.4: The Archipelago of the Recherche (John Béchervaise), The Story of the Boundaries (J.H.L. Cumpston). Vol 17, No.5: Savage Battles between Snakes (David Fleay), A Zoologist in the Recherche Archipelago (Vincent Serventy), Prawning (D. Mercer), Vol. 17, No.6: Birds of the Recherche Archipelago (Vincent Serventy), Volcanic Centres of New Guinea (N.H. Fisher), The Future of the Australian Tuna Industry (T.C. Rougley). Vol.17, No.7: Prawns from the Ocean (T.C. Roughley), Reptiles of the Recherche Archipelago (Vincent Serventy), The Seafaring Manus Islanders (T.W. White), Valedictory - John Flynn (Ernestine Hill). Vol.17, No.8: Rabaul (Noël Lambert), Tin Dredging at Mt. Garnet (John K. Ewers), The Monte Bello Islands (Trevor Tuckfield), Noddies of the Abrolhos (Vincent Serventy). Vol.17, No.9: Fifty Years of Federation - and the Australian Way of Life (Dr. W.E.H. Stanner), Tasmanian Aboriginal Carvings (Jessie S. Luckman), Mining for Mica (Mary Holyoake), Heard Island (W.L. Crowther). Vol.17, No.10: The Story of the Hiri (Donald F. Thomson), Nature's Natural Penitentiary (Arnold M. Maahs), Slow Death of a Ghost Town - Borroloola (L.E. Kingsbury). Vol.17, No.11: The Atherton Tableland (John K. Ewers), Snakes and Aboriginal Lore (W.E. Harney), Men of the Cattle Country (Alan Marshall), Leper Colony (Stuart Gore). Vol.17, No.12: Spanish Mission - New Norcia (Stuart Gore), Bones of the Buangs (Arnold M. Maahs), Ships that Service the Lighthouses (Mary Holyoake), Wealth in Whales (Rowley Roberts), A Dam is Raised - Mundaring Weir (H. Drake-Brockman).
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