Flying Fox and Drifting Sand: The Adventures of a Biologist in Australia

Australia: Angus and Robertson, Sydney, 1951. School edition. Brown octavo with brown spine title; brown and yellow pictorial jacket; x, 332 pages: illustrations, map; 22 cm A very good (+) copy with clean pages, solid binding, some slight edgewear; Australian bookshop sticker on front pastedown; DJ is very good (-) with small closed tear near top of DJ spine and a few small chips around edges. Hardcover.

"Although Mr. Ratcliffe is a biologist, and although his Australian vagabondage was strictly professional, Flying Fox and Drifting Sand is far from being a scientific journal or a piece of popular natural history. The author was just as much interested in places and people as he was in creatures and problems which he had to investigate; and from his book there emerges a lively and convincing picture of the Australian bush." --Jacket