Wildride

By Sam Everingham

The Rise & Fall of Cobb & Co.

In 1853, a young American arrived in the new colony of Victoria hoping to make his fortune from the world's greatest goldrush. He soon realised that the real money was to be made from the miners' need to travel from the fields where they found gold to the towns where they spent it, and established a coach company that would literally carry his name into every household in the land: Cobb & Co.

The coach line ran along routes covering much of Eastern Australia from Victoria to Cooktown in Far North Queensland. It has been compared to the Qantas of its day.

Soft cover. 308 pages. approx. 230mm X 152mm. First Edition (2007).

APN 9780670029174. RRP $32.95