Pioneers' Country
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Few regions of the world carry the weight of raw, untamed history quite like the vast outback of Australia's Queensland, and Pioneers' Country by Glenville Pike stands as a definitive chronicle of the men and women who dared to tame it. This landmark work details the pioneering of the Channel Country, the great cattle runs, and the frontier lives carved out across the sweeping south-west Queensland ranges — a story of endurance, ambition, and survival against an indifferent and magnificent landscape. Pike draws on meticulous historical research and an intimate knowledge of the region to present a vivid portrait of the drovers, squatters, and settlers who shaped one of Australia's most remote frontiers. Published in an enlarged and revised new edition, Pioneers' Country stands as an essential text in the canon of Australian frontier history, celebrated for its authoritative detail and its deeply personal connection to the land it chronicles. Pike's prose is both accessible and richly evocative, capturing the dust, the hardship, and the extraordinary resilience of a pioneering generation with an authenticity that academic distance rarely achieves. For anyone captivated by the true story of how a nation's identity was forged in its most unforgiving corners, this volume poses a question that lingers long after the final page: what does it truly cost to call a wilderness home?
Author: Glenville Pike
Format: Paperback
Genre: Australian history
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Few regions of the world carry the weight of raw, untamed history quite like the vast outback of Australia's Queensland, and Pioneers' Country by Glenville Pike stands as a definitive chronicle of the men and women who dared to tame it. This landmark work details the pioneering of the Channel Country, the great cattle runs, and the frontier lives carved out across the sweeping south-west Queensland ranges — a story of endurance, ambition, and survival against an indifferent and magnificent landscape. Pike draws on meticulous historical research and an intimate knowledge of the region to present a vivid portrait of the drovers, squatters, and settlers who shaped one of Australia's most remote frontiers. Published in an enlarged and revised new edition, Pioneers' Country stands as an essential text in the canon of Australian frontier history, celebrated for its authoritative detail and its deeply personal connection to the land it chronicles. Pike's prose is both accessible and richly evocative, capturing the dust, the hardship, and the extraordinary resilience of a pioneering generation with an authenticity that academic distance rarely achieves. For anyone captivated by the true story of how a nation's identity was forged in its most unforgiving corners, this volume poses a question that lingers long after the final page: what does it truly cost to call a wilderness home?