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A Wild History: Life and Death on the Victoria River Frontier(Australian History)

A Wild History: Life and Death on the Victoria River Frontier(Australian History)


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The frontiersmen who came to the Victoria River District of Australia’s Northern Territory included cattle and horse thieves, outlaws, capitalists, dreamers, drunks, madmen and others, from the explorers of the 1830s and 1850s to the founders of the big stations in the 1880s and 1890s, and the cattle duffers in the early 1900s. This book looks at them all. Drawing on painstaking research into obscure and rich documentary sources, Aboriginal oral traditions, and firsthand investigations conducted in the region over thirtyfive years, Darrell Lewis pieces together the complex interactions between the environment, the powerful and warlike Aboriginal tribes and the settlers and their cattle, which produced what truly became A Wild History.

Table of Contents:

Foreword

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1. The Victoria River Country: Land and People

2. First Contact

3. The Advance Scouts of Settlement

4. The Coming of the Cattle

5. Unquiet Times

6. Jasper Gorge

7. Captain Joe’s Bradshaw

8. The Wild Wardaman Warriors

9. The Victoria River Sheep Saga

10. Hard-Riding Individualists

11. The Nest of Reputed Thieves

Epilogue

Bibliography

Index



About the Author :
Darrell Lewis is an archaeologist, historian and bushman who has worked in the Outback for more than forty years. He has driven, helicoptered, boated or walked into many remote regions to document historic sites, record natural features and photograph Aboriginal rock art. He has also worked extensively with Aboriginal peoples and other residents in the Northern Territory and elsewhere. His books and articles cover Aboriginal rock art, environmental history, cattle station technology, European exploration and settlement of the Northern Territory. His most recent title is Where is Dr Leichhardt?: The Greatest Mystery in Australian History.

Review :

It is a story with which every Australian should become familiar.

An extraordinary inversion of the Australian frontier with which we think we are familiar – and a brilliant piece of mythbusting.

A very readable portrait of a genuine frontier ... an isolated outpost whose isolation only really ended in the late 20th century.

A gift to the nation.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781921867262
  • Publisher: Monash University Publishing
  • Publisher Imprint: Monash University Publishing
  • Height: 234 mm
  • No of Pages: 352
  • Series Title: Australian History
  • Width: 153 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1921867264
  • Publisher Date: 01 Mar 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: Life and Death on the Victoria River Frontier


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