Tin Mosques and Ghantowns: A History of Afghan Cameldrivers in Australia by Christine Stevens

Book Description

Secondhand. Good condition. Ex library copy with external sticker and protective plastic covering. Sticker and stamp to imprint page. Foredges have been stamped. Barcode and partial date due slip on back page.

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)