(Miegunyah Series 1, number 16.) First (and only) edition. Large 8vo. 230pp, 13 maps, 32 plates (11 in colour). Cloth-textured papered boards with dustwrapper. Top edges a little spotted, otherwise a very good+ clean copy. ISBN 0522845657 ***Dufresne was the first of the European expeditioners to have contact with the Tasmanian Aborigines, with the fatal result that was a portent (for him as well as for them) of what was to come.