Crossing the Dead Heart

by C. T. Madigan

Rigby, 1974
Black and white photographic plates
ISBN 0851795196
Hardcover, dustjacket

Condition: Very Good
a little edge and shelf wear with a little rubbing and bumping to corners and covers. Dustjacket very good with a little rubbing, bumping and chipping (see photographs)

“The Simpson Desert, sprawling across the border of South Australia and the Northern Territory, is a vast area of sand hills and spinifex plains, aptly called ‘the dead heart of Australia’.
As recently as 1939, when World War II was already looming in Europe, it remained untraversed: an unknown sea rippled by wave after wave of parallel red sand ridges.
IN that year Mr A. A. Simpson financed the expedition led by Adelaide geologist Dr C. T. Madigan which was to make the first crossing of the remarkable and desolate terrain which now bears Simpson’s name.”