From Corner to Corner - The line of Henry Colless

'The Collesses. Theirs is the story of Australia itself. Convicts, bushrangers, cattle thieves, pioneers, punters, graziers, ANZACs; floods and droughts, boom and bust, they lived right through it all. Their story is every bit as comprehensive as Dorothea Mackellar's "I love a sunburnt country". They were right in the thick of our founding cultural history; they helped to make it, helped make this land. From Bird's Eye Corner to the far corner country. Henry Colless's line - corner to corner, through the middle of everything. And it is not a line without trace. George, William, Henry, they each handed on their sterling character - a more telling legacy than money can buy.'

Henry Colless, one of the old pioneers. In his mid-teens he set out as a carrier across the Blue Mountains and then further along the track to the northwest. He was still a teenager when he helped his father and his brother establish legendary Come-by-Chance. He was one of the early settlers in Bourke, and later became one of its leading lights; and he drove a great mob of cattle across the corner country to establish the first station at Innamincka.

This is his story.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Adrian Mitchell
• Edition: Wakefield Press
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre de poche
• Sortie: 30.06.2015
• EAN: 9781743053690
• ISBN: 978-1-74305-369-0
• Pages: 280
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 210 mm x 16 mm
• Poids: 346 g
• Catégories: Littérature spécialisée > Histoire > Biographies, autobiographies; Sciences humaines, art, musique > Histoire; Sciences sociales, droit, économie > Sociologie > Général, dictionnaires