All Aboard For Singapore A Trip by Qantas Flying Boat from Sydney to Malaya
Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1941. Octavo, blue cloth hard cover, dust jacket, x, 242 pp., six additional leaves at back (unpaginated), endpapers illustrated with a map; frontispiece, six double-sided black-and-white plates. Spine ends bumped, spine faded, light foxing throughout, otherwise a very good copy. Written by seminal Australian historian Frank Clune, this is the final edition of a trilogy of which Sky High and To the Isles of Spice are the previous two. In this book Clune describes life onboard a Qantas flying boat travelling from Sydney up past Queensland and Darwin, via Timor and Java to Singapore.
Inscribed on the half-title page with: "Father, I think you should enjoy this - I've read it! Best wishes for the 28th, Evan. August, 1941" Item #4478
Price (AUD): $60.00