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Outback Pioneers Evan McHugh |
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Great Achievers of the Australian Bush In Outback Pioneers, 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; and we marvel at the genius and grit of the men who overcome political treachery to build the Coolgardie Pipeline and the Trans-Australian Railway. Soft laminated cover, 277pages. approx. 198mm X 129mm.ISBN 9780143010760 (2009). RRP $24.95 |
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The First Pioneers John Wilson (c.1770 - 1800) Hungry Jim James Tyson (1819 - 1898) Old Bluey Nat Buchanan (1826 - 1901) The Quiet Achiever Dervish Bejah (c1862 - 1957) The Water Bringer C.Y. O'Connor (1843 - 1902) A Bond of Iron The Trans-Australian Railway (1912 - 1917) No Place for a Woman The Country Women's Association (1922 - ) Bush Nurse Grace Francis (1892 - 1959) No Better Sound John Flynn (1880 - 1951) The Pedal Radio Man Alfred Traeger (1895 - 1980) The School of The Air Adelaide Miethke (1881 - 1962) The Last Bushman R.M. Williams (1908 - 2003) Outback Rescue Peter McRae (1951 - ) and Frank Manthey (1938 - ) |
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