“A collection of non-fiction stories about the pioneers who helped establish outback Australia” There were few more exotic places in Australia. Tribal Aboriginal people could still be seen around the town. Camel trains slowly made their way through the red-stone gorge that split MacDonnell Range. Rugged cattlemen and hard-bitten prospectors strode the streets.’
In Outback Pionners, Evan McHugh gathers the enthralling stories of the men and women who opened up the Australian outback and in the process discovered the beauty and terror of this extraordinary country.
We meet the little-known convict explorer John Wilson, the first European to cross the Blue Mountains (though history favours the proper English gentlemen Blaxland, Wentworth and Lawson); we follow Australia’s greatest drover, Nat Buchanan, as he blazes stock routes from one side of the country to another…
277 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), ports. ; 23 cm. #110322
Pioneers — Australia. | Frontier and pioneer life — Australia. | Australia — History — 1788-1900.