The Dreadnought of the Darling by C E W Bean

Book Description

Secondhand. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges. Small sticky tape stain to front endpage. Sunning to front and back endpage. Dust jacket is in fair condition with old sticky tape and tears. Dust jacket is now enclosed in a glossy protective dust jacket cover. Interior and binding are still very good.

Captures the life and colour of the busy stream of commerce that once - and it is not so long ago - moved up and down the Darling River across the vast back-country of New South Wales and along the Murray through the river ports: Mildura, Swan Hill and Echucha in Victoria or Murray Bridge or Goolwa in South Australia.

Before that commerce died, killed by the railways with which the Government dragged the trade to the capitals, C E W Bean voyaged happily in the old Dreadnought and set down for those who would not see it, the life of the river, the ways of the steamers and their skippers, the spirit of their crews and of the people and the country through which they moved.

First Australian edition.