The Defeat of Distance Qantas 1919-1939
St. Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 1985. Large octavo, hardcover, xvi, 400 pp., illustrated. Dust-jacket lightly rubbed, otherwise a fine copy in a fine dust-jacket. 'The Defeat of Distance', the first volume of the award-winning history of Qantas, takes the airline from 1919 to the beginning of the Second World..... More