Outback Pioneers: Great Achievers of the Australian Bush by Evan McHugh

Outback Pioneers: Great Achievers of the Australian Bush by Evan McHugh

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Book Type: SECONDHAND
ISBN: 9780143010760
Author: Evan McHugh
Edition: 2nd Edition
Publisher: Penguin Books
Place: Camberwell VIC
Year: 2009
Format: Paperback
Pages: 288 pages

Book Description

Secondhand. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges. Previous owner has signed inside page. Small mark on inside half-title page. A little wobble to top of a few pages, usually indicating exposure to a humid climate.

Thirteen stories of the men and women who have transformed the outback experience.

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.

There are some delightful inclusions - a gentle Pakistani cameleer who saves foolhardy expeditioners; a nerdy ham radio operator who invents the pedal radio and paves the way for John Flynn's Flying Doctor; two bush nurses who toil in the ruins of a pub while saving outback lives; and the modern-day pioneers who battle apathy to save endangered wildlife. (back cover)

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