205 pages, illustrated. The pages are very lightly tanned, and there is an ownership signature on the front end paper, else clean, unmarked and solid. Nancy Adams is "Member of a distinguished pioneer family (of whom she has written in Saxon Sheep), "She writes, she says, to record before it is too late something of the distinguished men and women she has known. Nevertheless, her story swells to more than personal dimensions; its theme is the life and death of her generation; a generation integrated and vitalised by British precedent --but Australian, not British; a proud and possessive generation that, like its British counterpart, was decimated and dispossessed by two world wars." (front flap)