208 pages. A clean, unmarked and solid copy. "Almost the first man I met in Australia, 50 years ago, called me a Pommy Bastard and we parted for life after demonstrating that neither was any better than the other at fisticuffing. I learned all the four-letter words because they were the language of the day even though they made me retch and men laughed. I was chased across a "bare" claypen by an enraged six-foot brown snake and won the race although it took the burrs three weeks to all fester out of the soles of my feet...."(front flap)