Edition: 1st ed.,

Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good condition
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Gifter's inscription fep. Light bumping on spine and corners. Some focing on book block.

This professional biography chronicles the foundational years of South Australia by uncovering the private correspondence and public struggles of Adelaide’s first Surveyor-General. M.P. Mayo details Light’s strategic vision for the city’s design and illustrates the political friction that defined the colonial era.