Nullarbor Lifelines by Basil Fuller (7 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 214 pages. Illustrated. Plastic wrapper.

Original Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Illus.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges, particularly at tail edge. Some faint foxing marks on foredges. Dust jacket has wear to corners and is now enclosed in a glossy protective cover. Interior and binding are still very good. Basil Fuller blends his observations of the modern road and rail links with the history of the Nullarbor as told to him by men who remember the days of camel trains. He writes of people who have learnt how to survive on the homesteads and railway sidings of Australian outposts. "The 'Tea and Sugar', which is the name given to the supply train that carries the necessities and minor luxuries of life to the tiny townships along the Trans-Australian Railway, is a part of Australian folklore. Most people have heard of it: few know anything about it. Basil Fuller decided to find out for himself and took a 'Tea and Sugar' trip across the Nullarbor. This project developed into an exploration of the two routes linking eastern and western Australia across the vast, arid Nullarbor Plain: the railway and the Eyre Highway. They are lifelines not only for Australia but especially for people living on the Nullarbor. The author travelled west aboard the Tea and Sugar and returned by roughing it on one of the road trains that supply dwellers along the highway. Out of a land of bull oak, salt bush and bluebush, he has drawn many human-interest stories from the people of the Nullabor. His talks with old-timers about the early days of the Nullarbor and the hardships they endured are interwoven with his study of how people live along the two lifelines nowadays. A fascinating account of the construction of the Nullarbor Highway in the 1970s.…

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 214pp; illustrations, top edges a tad rubbed, otherwise very good.; 220 x 140mm.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. No dust jacket. First Edition. 214 pages. Black/white photography. A clean, straight book.

hardcover. Rigby, 1977. First edition. A near fine copy only marked by very light shelf rubbing to the spine ends and  a single tiny spot on the top edge. The d/w is also near fine  with only very light bumping on the head of the spine.

Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. Fine in Mylar Sleeve. 1st Printing of 1st Edition. This copy just out of long-term storage, appears unread.