Squatters - The Story of Australia's Pastoral Pioneers

Stone, Barry
Squatters - The Story of Australia's Pastoral Pioneers

Squatters - The Story of Australia's Pastoral Pioneers

Stone, Barry

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'A very readable history of an important group of Australian pioneers' - Graham Seal, author of the bestselling Great Australian Stories

For the early settlers who came from Britain's crowded cities and tiny villages, it must have been extraordinarily liberating to pack their belongings onto a bullock dray and head beyond the reach of meddlesome authorities to claim new land for themselves.

Settlers spread out across inland Australia constructing windmills and fences, dry-stone walls and storehouses, livestock yards and droving routes, the traces of which can still be seen today. The fortunate and indomitable succeeded, while countless others succumbed to drought and flood. Those who were successful became a class all their own: the scrub aristocrats.

Barry Stone has scoured through diaries, journals and newspapers, and sorted myth from legend. He tells the stories of pioneers whose vision and hard work built pastoral empires running thousands of head of stock, providing meat for a growing colony and wool for export, a rural juggernaut that would lay the foundations of a prosperous nation.

Author:   Stone, Barry
Publisher:   Allen & Unwin
ISBN:  

9781760291532


Pages:   256
Publication Date:   07 January 2019
Bind Format:   Paperback
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'A very readable history of an important group of Australian pioneers' - Graham Seal, author of the bestselling Great Australian Stories

For the early settlers who came from Britain's crowded cities and tiny villages, it must have been extraordinarily liberating to pack their belongings onto a bullock dray and head beyond the reach of meddlesome authorities to claim new land for themselves.

Settlers spread out across inland Australia constructing windmills and fences, dry-stone walls and storehouses, livestock yards and droving routes, the traces of which can still be seen today. The fortunate and indomitable succeeded, while countless others succumbed to drought and flood. Those who were successful became a class all their own: the scrub aristocrats.

Barry Stone has scoured through diaries, journals and newspapers, and sorted myth from legend. He tells the stories of pioneers whose vision and hard work built pastoral empires running thousands of head of stock, providing meat for a growing colony and wool for export, a rural juggernaut that would lay the foundations of a prosperous nation.

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Author:   Stone, Barry
Publisher:   Allen & Unwin
ISBN:  

9781760291532


Pages:   256
Publication Date:   07 January 2019
Bind Format:   Paperback
Availability:  
This item is in stock and will be dispatched immediately.
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