Black Man--Red Sand

[8], 444, [4] pages. Inscribed by author on the fep. Map. DJ has wear, soiling, edge tears and chips. The authors served in World War II and the Korean Wear. He was later stationed in Tehran and Panama. He has treated patients throughout the Middle East and in Central and South America. But it is in "Aussie-land" and the American expatriate community at Alice Springs, or what the Australians called the Spyce Byce, that this unique and technically exact journal begins. The author and his wife spent over twenty years in private practice and then returned to government service overseas for a while before returning to their home in California. In this work, the author brings together two years of personal journals, flight logs, musings and medical notes collected in the Alice, the heart of the continent we call Australia. As an American civilian and physician serving in the Aeromedical Service of the Royal Flying Doctors, Rutten mingles with and heals the superstitious aboriginals in the outback. His detailed account covers his journeys into the aboriginal culture and thousands of aerial miles of intoxicating sunsets and sunrises over Ayer's Rock, Chamber's Pillar, Henbury Craters and along the Finke and Dockers rivers to the Olgas. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated].…