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Title: |
A Wild History |
| Sub-title: |
Life and Death on the Victoria River Frontier |
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| By (author): |
Darrell Lewis |
| ISBN10-13: |
1921867264 : 9781921867262 |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| Size: |
234x153xmm |
| Pages: |
352 |
| Weight: |
.000 Kg. |
| Published: |
Monash University Publishing - March 2012 |
| List Price: |
19.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: |
Reprint under Consideration
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| Subjects: |
Australasian & Pacific history |
| The frontiersmen who came to the Victoria River District of Australiaâ 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 |
| Reviews: |
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It is a story with which every Australian should become familiar. -- Henry Reynolds
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An extraordinary inversion of the Australian frontier with which we think we are familiar - and a brilliant piece of mythbusting. -- Professor Tom Griffiths, Australian National University
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A very readable portrait of a genuine frontier ... an isolated outpost whose isolation only really ended in the late 20th century. -- Steven Carroll, The Age
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A gift to the nation. -- Nicolas Rothwell, The Australian
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