272 pages, illustrated with black and white photos. First published in 1935, with a new edition in 1949. This is a second impression. The preliminaries are lightly foxed and there is a gift inscription on the verso of the front end paper, else clean, unmarked and solid, though obviously used. Inscribed by Ion Idriess. "Man Tracks tells of stirring episodes in the pursuit, of lawbreakers in the primitive lands. Every chapter is authentic. Patrols through the Kimberleys, the wild Fitzmaurice River country, the nor'-west of Western Australia, the Northern Territory, and Central Australia; each incident recorded from the lips of the pursuers and pursued whether white, black, or brown.. The book contains remarkable stories of the methods of aboriginal trackers, given exactly as they worked on each case. Nothing like these tracking chapters has ever been attempted in book form before. Idriess spent much of his life travelling throughout Australia, collecting material for his true-life stories, including Flynn of the Inland, The Red Chief and Nemarluk. He was awarded the O.B.E. in 1968 for his contribution to Australian literature " (Publisher later edition)