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Outback Pioneers: Evan McHugh

Outback Pioneers: Evan McHugh

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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...Her are 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. There's 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); Australia's greatest drover, Nat Buchanan, blazing stock routes from one side of the country to another; and the genius and grit of the men who overcome political treachery to build the Coolgardie Pipeline and the Trans-Australian Railway; a gentle Pakistani cameleer who saves foolhardy expeditioners; the nerdy ham radio operator who invented the pedal radio and paved the way for John Flynn's Flying Doctor; two bush nurses who toiled in the ruins of a pub while saving outback lives; and the modern-day pioneers who battle apathy to save endangered wildlife. Plus, there are the intriuging stories of R.M. Williams, the Cattle King James Tyson, and the women behind the CWA and the School of the Air. Illustrated with black and white and colour photographs.

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Autobiography/Bio/Non-Fiction, OS paperback; no spine creases; gift inscription on author bio page otherwise a near fine copy
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