Race round Australia : an instructive, educational game for two to four players

[Collingwood, Vic. : G.N. Raymond, c.1945]. Board game, 410 x 475 mm, folding to 410 x 238 mm, offset printed paper onlay, accompanied by the loose rules sheet (creased); outer boards (lightly marked) with pictorial paper onlay. Scarce.

An educational board game designed by the talented Melburnian Jessie Mackintosh, who was also the creator of another beautiful board game, Corroboree.

Race round Australia teaches children about Australian native animals and birds. Players start the race in Adelaide, with the first to reach Darwin the winner.

Examples are held in the collections of the Powerhouse Museum, State Library of Victoria, National Library of Australia, and Monash University Library.