Book Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Hardcover; Tan cloth binding excellent- tight, clean & square; Spine lettering crisp & intact. Text is tight, clean, unmarked. NO hinge splits, NOT ex library. Handsome, well preserved copy. Signed by Author on Flyleaf: "Best Wishes, Robert Hagan". Robert Hagan is known for his western, romantic, decorative, adventure, portraiture and maritime paintings. Hagan's approach to painting is to translate scenes of everyday life into romantic, nostalgic and blissfully peaceful visions of the world. His subjects include the figure in a moment of reflection, animals, children fishing on the beach with their father, sailboats, rainforest birds, cowboys on horseback rounding up cattle or hunched over a campfire after a hard day's droving and dusty outback scenes of Australia. Although self-taught, Hagan's style is impressionist using a limited palette of oil to impart a sense of tranquility and play on light to make the painting come alive. His brushwork is loose with final strokes of impasto.