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FYSH, HUDSON. - Taming The North.

Title: Taming The North.
Description: Second Revised and Enlarged Edition; Demy 8vo; pp. xviii, 266; endpaper maps, portrait frontispiece, 12 pages of plates, references used or consulted, index, bound in original green cloth, little label on spine, title lettered in gilt on label, dustjacket, very good copy. Sydney; Angus & Robertson; 1950. Kennedy's ill-fated exploration and native murders in Cloncurry district covered. Plates include Natives in war Paint, Hudson Fysh ready for first flight with Qantas in 1922, Graves of Woonoomo murder victims, F. C. Urquart and troopers, a vanished race, when Cobb and Co was King, Corroboree and more. Text includes the Natives a declining race, cattle droving, aviation in Queensland.

Keywords: Australian Local History Queensland Aboriginal History Settlement North-West Alexander Kennedy

Price: AUD 130.00 = appr. US$ 89.94 Seller: Time Booksellers
- Book number: 125854