Outback Heroes

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: Fine
Publisher: Lansdowne Publishing Pty Ltd
Publisher Place: Warriewood
Publisher Year: 1981
Edition: First Edition

Description: 255 pages. Book and Jacket appear to have hardly been read and are both in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: Role of Tommy Windich, Jemmy Mungara and Tommy Pierre in Forrests 1869 and 1874 expeditions; scattered contact histories; life of stockmen in Kimberleys; 1946 Kimberley strike; role of Don McLeod and Dooley; formation of North-west Cooperative and Nomad P/L; photographs of camp residents and mining methods; tracking of lost children; account of cattle drive by Daisy Bates, 1902, before involvement with Aborigines; includes photo with decorated Ooldea men holding spears; Bishop Gsells purchase of young women to stop traditional marriages, Melville and Bathurst Islands; tracking of Japanese pilot by Matthias, Melville Island, W.W.II; Aboriginal attack, Lizard Island, 1881.

ISBN: 9780701815622