The Woolshed: A Riverina Anthology by Peter Freeman

Book Description

Secondhand. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Dust jacket has creasing at edges and at spine.

This book is a study of the great woolsheds of the Riverina and of the pastoral society that gave them birth.

As the Colony of New South Wales was settled, the Riverina, that wide open, ugly pastoral district in which squatters prospered, became synonymous with the wool industry in Australia. On the extensive holdings of the Riverina squatters, huge woolsheds were erected, where the sheep were yarded and shorn and the wool was pressed into bales, ready for transportation to Melbourne or Sydney.

Peter Freeman visited numerous woolsheds, describing twenty-six in detail - documenting the fortunes of their builders, the pioneering squatters, and those of their employees - the outback sheep-shearers who wandered from property to property. (book flap)