The Front Door – Douglas Lockwood Darwin 1869-1969

From the inside dust jacket cover: “Violent action was the keynote of Darwin’s early days… It became a roughly romantic world of goldminers, explorers, cattlemen, buffalo hunters, pearlers, seafarers, workers on such great projects as the Overland Telegraph, and public servants of whom it was complained that ‘they consider their main mission in life is to eat, drink and be merry.”

First published (and this edition) 1968, Rigby Limited, Adelaide, Hardcover. Some minor wear and tear on the dust jacket.