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A Wild History
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A Wild History
Life and Death on the Victoria River Frontier
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The frontiersmen who came to the Victoria River District of Australia’s Northern Territory included cattle and horse thieves, outlaws, capitalists, dreamers, drunks, madmen and others, from the explorers of the 1830s and 1850s to the founders of the big stations in the 1880s and 1890s, and the cattle duffers in the early 1900s. This book looks at them all. Drawing on painstaking research into obscure and rich documentary sources, Aboriginal oral traditions, and firsthand investigations conducted in the region over thirtyfive years, Darrell Lewis pieces together the complex interactions between the environment, the powerful and warlike Aboriginal tribes and the settlers and their cattle, which produced what truly became A Wild History.
Darrell Lewis is an archaeologist, historian and bushman who has worked in the Outback for more than forty years. He has driven, helicoptered, boated or walked into many remote regions to document historic sites, record natural features and photograph Aboriginal rock art. He has also worked extensively with Aboriginal peoples and other residents in the Northern Territory and elsewhere. His books and articles cover Aboriginal rock art, environmental history, cattle station technology, European exploration and settlement of the Northern Territory. His most recent title is Where is Dr Leichhardt?: The Greatest Mystery in Australian History.
- ISBN-13
- 9781921867262
- Publisher
- Monash University Publishing
- Imprint
- Monash University Publishing
- Publication date
- 1 March 2012
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 352
- Dimensions
- 234 x 153 mm
- Language
- English
