A Wild History: Life and Death on the Victoria River Frontier
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| ISBN-13 |
9781921867262 |
| ISBN-10 |
1921867264 |
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| Stock |
Available |
| Status |
Showing available at publisher; usually ships 7-15 working days |
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| Publisher |
FOOTPRINT BOOKS |
| Imprint |
Monash University Publishing |
| Publication Date |
15 February 2012
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| International Publication Date |
15 March 2012 |
| Publication Country |
 Australia |
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| Format |
Paperback |
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| Author(s) |
By Lewis, Darrell |
| Category |
Australasian & Pacific history: c 1750 to c 1900
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| Interest Age |
All ages |
| Reading Age |
All ages |
| NBS Text |
Regional History |
| ONIX Text |
College/higher education;General/trade |
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| Number of Pages |
240 |
| Dimensions |
Not specified |
| Weight |
Not specified - defaults to 600g |
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| Dewey Code |
994.29 |
| Catalogue Code |
Not specified |
Description of this Book
In 1883 pastoralists began to drive great herds of cattle into Victoria River District of Australia's Northern Territory. They entered a vast tropical land of big rivers, wide plains, and rugged ranges. It was a cattleman's paradise, but also a paradise for the Aboriginal people who had lived there for thousands of years. Each side came to see the other as the serpent in the garden - a serpent that had to be banished - and a twenty year war ensued. The cattlemen won, but it was a pyrrhic victory. The coming of the cattle began the destruction of the paradise for both. The frontiersmen who came to the district included cattle and horse thieves, outlaws, capitalists, dreamers, drunks, madmen and others. Together they established massive stations of up to 12,000 square miles on the traditional lands of the Aborigines. This book looks at them all, from the explorers of the 1830s and 1850s to the founders of the big stations in the 1880s and 1890s, and finally at the 'golden era' of the cat
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