Books

Angus and Robertson   Sydney, 1965, 1^st.Edn, 4to, Illust, 296pp,   D/J,  Qantas Rising is the story of two young ex-servicemen who had nothing to do after World War I, so they founded one of the world's great airlines.   The airline was Qantas.  Sir Hudson Fysh's own career is of course inseparable from that of Qantas. It  covers his boyhood in Tasmania, with the Light Horse at Gallipoli and in Palestine; and as a  war-time observer and pilot,   his epic journey  across  the Northern Territory in search of suitable landing sites for Ross Smith historic first flight from England to Australia after Qantas had been founded over a hotel table in Brisbane. It tells of his barnstorming around outback, of desperate battles against rival companies to secure vital contracts;  This is the history of Qantas up to 1934.   -Fine 

Knopf  New York. 1972, 1st US Edn  8vo. Illust 196pp. plus index, D/J.  A fly fisherman's feast of rare items from the author's streamside experiences and from his perusal of fascinating historical curiosities in angling lore.   Essays on the who's who of angling including Berners, Walton, Cotton, Gordon and  Bethune, on early flies, steelhead and  Yellowstone. Good colour plates of early flies, D/J has sl tear  - Nr Fine

Knopf Inc. New York8 1972, 8vo8 Illust8 196pp. plus index, D/J. A fly fishermans feast of rare items from the authors streamside experiences and from his perusal of fascinating historical curiosities in angling lore. Essays on the who's who of angling including Berners, Walton, Cotton, Gordon and  Bethune, on early flies, steelhead and Yellowstone. Good colour plates of early flies, 1st US Edn - Fine