'Mr Idriess records his recent experiences while accompanying a Nor'-west Mounted Police Patrol for twelve hundred miles through the Kimberleys, north of the King Leopold Range - one of the longest and most arduous patrols ever made in that wild region.'
'The volume contains the first published interpretations in book form of aboriginal message sticks.'
'10,000 copies of this book were sold in twelve days.' - Publisher's blurb (All About Books 10 (3) 1938: 43)