Author: COX, RICHARD.
Title: William Cox Blue Mountains Road Builder and Pastoralist.
Description: First Edition; Demy 8vo; pp. [ii], 312; portrait frontispiece, text with numerous illustrations some in colour, bibliography, notes, index, bound in original stiff illustrated wrappers, very good copy. Sydney; Rosenberg Publishing Pty. Ltd.; 2012. William Cox made his name building the road across the Blue Mountains in 1814. In just over six months, his team of 30 convicts hacked out 163 kilometers of road through appalling terrain, without serious accident. As a pastoralist Cox helped carry through the improvements which gave Australia its first significant wool exports.
Keywords: Australian Local History New South wales Biographies
Title: William Cox Blue Mountains Road Builder and Pastoralist.
Description: First Edition; Demy 8vo; pp. [ii], 312; portrait frontispiece, text with numerous illustrations some in colour, bibliography, notes, index, bound in original stiff illustrated wrappers, very good copy. Sydney; Rosenberg Publishing Pty. Ltd.; 2012. William Cox made his name building the road across the Blue Mountains in 1814. In just over six months, his team of 30 convicts hacked out 163 kilometers of road through appalling terrain, without serious accident. As a pastoralist Cox helped carry through the improvements which gave Australia its first significant wool exports.
Keywords: Australian Local History New South wales Biographies
Price: AUD 35.00 = appr. US$ 24.22 Seller: Time Booksellers
- Book number: 126254
- Book number: 126254