Work Completed, Canning: A Comprehensive History of the Canning Stock Route 1906-2010 by Phil Bianchi

Book Description

Secondhand. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges. Faint marks on foredges. Marks on half-title page, otherwise interior and binding are very good.

The story of Alfred W Canning and the development and subsequent use of the 1800-kilometre-long Canning Stock Route from Halls Creek to Wiluna.

Original historical documents are combined with oral history in a narrative that covers the origins of the stock route, surveying, construction of the wells, droving, deaths and murders, exploration and prospecting, well restoration, identities and adventurers, place name origins and tourism.

The book features photographs, maps, exploration and droving journals that have never been published. Mysteries of the stock route are solved, and long-held beliefs and myths are corrected. Expert analyses of flora, fauna and pasture complement Phil Bianchi’s research. (publisher blurb)