The Gifts Of Frank Cobbold

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: ETT IMPRINT
Publisher Place: Australia
Publisher Year: 2015
Edition: First Edition

Description: 272 pages. Book is in Very good condition throughout.

Publishers Description: This biography of Frank Cobbold opens when Frank goes to sea on a Clipper aged 14. It follows him through inexperience as a Fijian trader who escaped the cannibals cook pot and survived one of the worst hurricanes in living memory. In Australia he learned the skills of a surveyor and quickly became a sought-after and trusted station manager. Despite problems that would have defeated a less resolute man he took droughts, cheats and unyielding land tenure regulations in his stride to become one of Australias great pioneering pastoralists. Admired by fellow bushmen, trusted by his partners and wooed by bankers, his gritty determination earned him a small fortune which he gave away. Its a remarkable story.

ISBN: 9781925416220