Bournemouth, The Bush...and Beyond: The Life Story of Jose Petrick OAM (Signed and Inscrined)

First edition, first impression. Signed and inscribed by the author on the title page, 'Dear Mike and Joan, I hope you will enjoy the Davidson story and all the other scenarios, love Jose OAM, 29 December 2017'. In laminated illustrated card covers. 8vo. Gentle edge wear to card covers. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Petrick, a British-born Australian historian, records her life in Australia from nursing in Sydney and Hobart in the 1950s, a governess on a cattle station near Alice Springs, and as a journalist on the Centralian Advocate when she began to take an interest in the local history, and carrying the Olympic torch in Alice Springs in 2000. Hard to find title.