# 41463

FISCHER, Theodor

Vagabondlif I Australien

$220.00 AUD

 / af Theodor Fischer. Stockholm : Albert Bonniers Förlag, 1879. Small octavo (185 x 125 mm), contemporary half-calf over marbled papered boards; pp. 124, illustrated with 5 b/w lithographic plates (including one of a large Aboriginal group titled ‘King Okalia and entourage’; text in Swedish; a fine copy.

Memoir of a Swedish drifter in the outback of South Australia and Far West New South Wales, including descriptions of the Burra district in the mid north of South Australia, Outalpa Station in the far northeast of South Australia, and remote Teltawongee Station, northwest of Wilcannia, situated on the lands of the Mutawintji people, who are described in Fischer’s narrative and feature in one of the book’s illustrations.