254 pages, indexed, illustrated. Revised edition. Signed by Kurt Johannsen. Apart from an onership inscription on the front end paper, a clean unmarked and solid copy. "Kurt Gerhardt Johannsen (11 January 1915 - 23 January 2002) was an Australian bush mechanic who developed the world's first commercial road train. He was also an aviator, fencing contractor, inventor, labourer, mailman and miner and known a "true son of the Red Centre", referring to the southern desert region of the Northern Territory in Australia