About the author
Australia Ahoy is the third volume in this series of autobiographies, and this passage is taken from its Preface...
When you get that high flown notion, that you'd like to write a book, and become another in that worthy throng whose books line library shelves, and the years are whizzing by like there's no tomorrow, the last thing likely to weigh on anyone's mind is what you're going to do about a cover."San Fairy Ann" troops back from the front in France were wont to say at one time -- a matter of no consequence. It would be too much like putting the cart before the horse. Something to be put off until the cows come home, or when 'Nelson gets his eye back', whichever comes later. The text is all that matters, getting everything down in black and white, hard and fast; all those weird, wonderful and exciting adventures you've been itching to tell about since year dot...
