The Living Heart

by Frank Flynn with Keith Willey

The Devonshire Press, 1964, [Second Impression], black and white photographic plates, illustrated endpapers (maps), hardcover, dustjacket

Very Good Condition, a little edge and shelf wear, some rubbing and bumping to edges and corners, previous owners gift inscription on contents page, dustjacket shows some edge and shelf wear with some rubbing, bumping, chipping, tears and small parts missing (see photographs)

“Most Australians are “fringe dwellers” … about 68% of the population lives on the coastal plains.  To them, as to the visitor, the vast central plateau of this ancient continent offers one of the world’s last frontiers.  “A great and open, empty country,” compromising some of the oldest sections of the earth’s crust, it has been regarded as a sun-burned, wind-eroded, arid land… the so-called “Dead Heart” of Australia.
How true and yet how wrong.  The author a “Territorian” since the early days of World War II, opens up to us the beauty and potential richness of a land where “gardens bloom with an abandon seldom seen in the well-watered North” and yet where a man, lost and waterless, may perish… a blackened, dehydrated corpse within 48 hours.”

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