Australian Colonial Explorations & History - Lot with 3 books: Max Harris and Alison Forbes THE LAND THAT WAITED Melbourne, Lansdowne Press 1967 Oblong 8vo, cm. 26 x 24, publisher's cloth, pictorial dust jacket, red top edge, 115 (20) pages, lavishly illustrated throughout with 115 b/w ills, dust wrapper soiled and worn, good condition. This book tells through the eyes of the first adventurers, and the artists and the engravers among them, both amateur and professional what they saw and how they saw it. + Clive Turnbull BLACK WAR The extermination of the Tasmanian Aborigines with an introduction by Ian Hogbin Melbourne, Lansdowne Press 1966 in 8vo, cm. 22 x 14,5, publisher's cloth, illustrated dust jacket, (14), 274 pages, dust wrapper soiled and worn, book page edges soiled, light damp stain to boards, good condition. The story of the Aborigines of Tasmania which were destroyed utterly within seventy-five years. Clive Turnbull's work is the first extensive study of the subject. + POLICE TROOPERS OF THE OUTBACK Edited by Jim Sykes and Allan L. Peters On behalf of The South Australia Police Historical Society Adelaide, Crawford House Publishing 2007 Square 8vo, cm. 22,5 x 20, publisher's illustrated paperback, 258 pages, b/w illustrations, good condition. Police Troopers of old were a unique breed in the early years of Australia's colonies as they were frequently assigned to previously unexplored regions. They became masters of survival in what has often been described as one of the harshest and uncompromising environments in the world. Will be packaged very carefully and shipped with a track and trace code.