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Geology is Fun Recollections or the Anatomy and Confessions of a Geological Addict

1989rif. 146357Adelaide: The Author 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide The Author 1989. Quarto x 349 pages with 3 maps and numerous 'Cartoons by Stephen Stanley "Lafferty"'. Colour-pictorial papered boards unevenly sunned on the spine; an excellent copy. The half-title is signed by the author 'of Arkaroola Wildlife Sanctuary Flinders Ranges South Australia'. Loosely inserted is an autograph letter signed by him 2 pages octavo being the outer pages of a bifolium with his printed letterhead 14 January 1994. The letter is addressed to a former colleague Mrs Patricia Brooks. The first part of the letter deals with the forthcoming reunion at Arkaroola in March of former employees of Geosurveys the company he formed in 1954 'one of Australias earliest geological and geophysical consultancy companies' 'Australian Dictionary of Biography'. 'Quite a number of outsiders wanted to "break in". Lenny Beadell and one or two others are permissable! . Sadly many have passed on . So many have died only in the last year - I suppose that is to be expected - and one wonders when one will be next . I have had more than half a dozen near misses viz 1 Diving mishaps. 2 Aircraft forced landings 3 in one day!! 3 brain haemorrhage 4 Hepatitis . 5 four heart bye-passes and 6 one heart attack since. Not bad really. I can't now complain but hope I make it to and beyond the Geosurveys Reunion'. He did that but not by much . 'Reginald Claude Sprigg 1919-1994 geologist and ecotourism operator . died on 2 December 1994 in Glasgow while on holiday in Scotland. His ashes were scattered at Arkaroola. Awards a lecture series a mineral an undersea canyon and a research centre at the University of Adelaide among other things have been named after him' ADB. Some obituaries and related ephemera are also loosely inserted. The Author hardcover

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