JOY PACKER - THE WORLD IS A PROUD PLACE 1st ed Travellling Novel 1966 - ( Journey around the world)

With photo of author with her grandchildren on board Winnibelle. This is the vivid, personal story of a journey round the world - 'a proud place, peopled with men of positive quality....' Joy Packer was more interested in the people of the new worlds she discovered with such enthusiasm than in the sights suggested by the guide books.   She sets out from Cape Town in a small twelve-passenger cargoboat, sails up the east coast of Africa to Lourenco Margues, where the 'small world' of the ship alters course for Perth in Western Australia.  Illustrations: Tailing lambs, Hagley, ghost town Nevada, Mojave desert, big island of Hawaii, cablecars San Francisco, Sydney harbour, Golden nugget Las Vegas, Mount Tom Price in Hamersley Range, Royal Flying Doctor service NSW in action, Kirstenbosch wild garden

Eyre & Spottiswoode London Blue hardback First published 1966, map end pages, 254 pages, well-binded clean white pages.