Forrest 1847-1918: Volume one: 1847-91 Apprenticeship to Premiership by F K Crowley

Book Description

Secondhand. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Light foxing to top and right foredges. Dust jacket is in good condition with wear to edges, Tear to top back cover. Scratch on front cover. Now enclosed in a protective plastic cover.

The first volume of Professor Frank Crowley's biography of Sir John Forrest deals with Forrest's early life and career up to his premiership of Western Australia.

The son of an immigrant Scottish tradesman, Forrest was the first colonial-born Western Australian to qualify as a land surveyor, and he gained early fame as a courageous explorer of Australia's inland deserts. He twice crossed the Dead Heart overland from west to east, the first in 1870 south of the Nullarbor Plain, the second in 1874 north of the Plain,

When appointed Surveyor-General in 1883, at the age of thirty-six, he was the first colonial-born Western Australian to become a member of the Executive Council under the system of representative government. (book flap)