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Sin, Sweat and Sorrow. The Making of Capricornia Queensland 1840s-1940s.
by Huf, Liz; McDonald, Lorna; Myers, David (editors)
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0908140827
- ISBN 13
- 9780908140824
- Seller
-
Ashmore, Queensland, Australia
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About This Item
Rockhampton: University of Central Queensland Press., 1993. HEAVY. xi,306pp,bw ills. Pictorial boards in jacket. Brief gift note on front free endpaper, very light foxing to top edge and endpapers, slight fading to jacket spine. SIGNED by 2 of the editors (Liz Huf & David Myers), with personalised inscription by the former, on title page. Stretching from Great Keppel Island, Rockhampton, Gladstone and Mount Morgan in the east, following the region of the Tropic of Capricorn through Dingo, Banana, Emerald and Claremont all the way west to Longreach, Barcaldine, Winton, the Outer Barcoo and Cooper's Creek- Capricornia is one of the most colourful regions in Australia. Includes much on the original Murri Aborigines, the gold fields, bushrangers, the shearer's strike of 1891, floods and droughts, the war years, South Sea islanders, the women of Capricornia and much more.. Signed by Authors. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Folio.
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- Bookseller
- Lawrence Jones
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 053590
- Title
- Sin, Sweat and Sorrow. The Making of Capricornia Queensland 1840s-1940s.
- Author
- Huf, Liz; McDonald, Lorna; Myers, David (editors)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0908140827
- ISBN 13
- 9780908140824
- Publisher
- University of Central Queensland Press.
- Place of Publication
- Rockhampton
- Date Published
- 1993
- Size
- Folio
- Keywords
- Australia Queensland Capricornia Rockhampton Gladstone Aborigines Aboriginal Settlement Ssocial Sociology Gold Goldfields Prospecting Massacre Kanakas Cattle Sheep Wool Shearing Drought Flood Bushrangers Great Keppel Island Yeppoon Fitzroy Longreach Winto
- Bookseller catalogs
- Australian Local History; Australiana; HISTORY / Australia & New Zealand;
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About the Seller
Lawrence Jones
Biblio member since 2006
Ashmore, Queensland
About Lawrence Jones
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