Fifty Years of Song by Peter Dawson rock photography at a time of great

at a time of great change in Australia's history

and on his own experience of sailing to the Antarctic coastline where Mawson's reputation was first created

a solitary cloaked figure walking home from carnival and St Mark's Square in winter shrouded in white as an icy mist sweeps in from the sea

Matt Thornton's descriptive text goes down as easy as a glass of vintage Bordeaux

was amongst the most successful

Fifty Years of Song by Peter Dawson rock photography at a time of greatFifty Years of Song by Peter Dawson Hutchinson & Co., 1951, [First Edition],16 b w illustrations, hardcover, dustjacket Very Good Condition, book in fine condition, dustjacket repaired, price clipped with small tears, chips and creasing, small part dustjacket missing at spine (see photographs) 'Peter Dawson was born of Scottish parents in South Australia in 1882. For a long time after he left school he was torn between plumbing and singing as a