Publisher's Synopsis
It is the rainy season. Drunk and delirious, an old man lies dying in the Queensland bush. In his opium-hazed last hours, a priest finds his deserted shack and listens to his last words. Half-awake and half-dreaming the old man tells the story of an adventure set decades in the future, in a very different world...
 
William Morrow & Company; 1953. Hardcover. No dust cover. Blue cloth covered boards. Spine sunned with wear to top and bottom. Corners bumped and rubbed. Very slightly forward leaning. Minor marks to boards. Previous owners book plate to first paste down and label. Pages yellowing slightly to edges. Slightly forward leaning. Author's note to rear.  Preowned. No ISBN.