Cattle In Australia. The Story. The Icons. The Drives. The Big Runs

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: Fine
Publisher: Murray David Publishing
Publisher Place: Australia
Publisher Year: 2009
Edition: First Edition

Description: 224 pages. Book and Jacket appear to have hardly been read and are both in Fine condition throughout. The only exception is a small inscription to the inside page.

Publishers Description: The book covers in detail: A history of cattle in Australia since 1788 (the first cattle came from South Africa with the First Fleet) up to the present. Illustrated with period coloured engravings and Geoff Higgins photographs; In depth description and history of the Cattle Tracks (Canning Stock Route etc), Cattle Breeds today, Cattle pioneers biographies including a short Sir Sydney Kidman biography; Cattle Stories from the nineteenth century illustrated with newly commissioned full page watercolour illustrations; Exciting stories of cattle roundups, brumby round-ups, life on a cattle station-all from first hand reports of the time; Cattle songs and poems - including Lawson, Paterson, Harry The Breaker Morant and others, as well as famous folk poems and songs.

ISBN: 9781877009167