WILD FLOWERS OF AUSTRALIA Shell Motor Tours Booklet Eco Travel Book

Description

Wild Flowers of
Australia
Published by
Shell Company of Australia in 1929 (as dated in the illustrations)
48 page book with coloured drawings, colour photographs and black-and-white photographs.
The artist of the drawings is Herbert Jenkins
Soft cover with staple binding.
This booklet served as an early eco travel guide encouraging travelers and explorers to see the wildflowers of
Australia and ..."plead with you, the reader and public generally that they be not wantonly destroyed -- rather that, when discovered in their sacred haunts, they may be left untouched to delight the heart of all who might pass by."