Book Description
Secondhand. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Dust jacket has some creasing to back cover tail. Some fading to spine. Interior and binding are excellent.
Tin Mosques and Ghantowns cover one hundred and thirty neglected years of Australian history, for fifty years of which the camel trains crisscrossed the continent, carrying the necessities of life and some few of its luxuries to settlements in the isolated interior.
Throughout those years, the turbanned camel drivers, exotically dressed and often fragrant with oils and perfumes of the East, fought a bitter battle for the inland cartage trade with that quintessential symbol of outback adventure, the bullocky. (book flap)