Title Back on the wool track / Michelle Grattan

Published Milsons Point, N.S.W. : Vintage Australia, 2004

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Location	Call no.	Vol.	Availability
WATERFT BUSINESS	338.76363145 Bean Gra/Otw		AVAILABLE

Description xvi, 335 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 20 cm regular print Contents PART ONE: A BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH -- 1. The Finest Selector, 3 -- 2. The Making of an Australian, 8 -- 3. Becoming a journalist, 17 -- 4. Birth and Baptism of the Anzac Legend -- PART TWO: THE WEST - THEN AND NOW -- 5. The land That Never Leaves You, 45 -- 6. Adaptation and Change, 60 -- 7. Fighting the Elements, 72 -- 8. Women of the West, 88 -- 9. Falling off the Sheep's Back, 100 -- 10. The New Merino, 109 -- 11. The Old Trade in a New World, 119 -- PART THREE: BACK ON THE TRACK -- 12. The Start of Bean's Wool Track, 131 -- 13. The Town with Iron Windows, 139 -- 14. A New Industry an a a New 'Church', 153 -- 15. The Jandra Sails Again, 163 -- 16. The Once Great Dunlop, 173 -- 17. The T on the Gum Tree, 182 -- 18. The Shearing at Toorale, 187 -- 19. Modern Bards Celebrate an Od Romance, 200 -- 20. Sale of a Bride, 211 -- 21. A Garden in Need of Watering, 217 -- 22. The Farthest Town, 230 -- 23. A City Girl in Central Australia, 236 -- 24. Mining the Art Market, 244 -- 25. The Maidens of Menndee, 257 -- 26. The Secret of life, 264 -- 27. Hospitality in a eastern Town, 271 -- 28. The Mystery of Mossgiel, 286 -- 29. The End of the Line, 295 -- PART FOUR: THE FUTURE -- 30. The Future of the Darling and its Land, 305 Summary In 1909, journalist and war historian C.E.W. Bean wrote On The Wool Track. Now almost 100 years later, journalist Michelle Gattan traces Bean's footsteps and paints a fascinating picture of the Western Division in 21st century Australia Analysis Australian Anecdotes C.E.W. Bean Economic conditions History New South Wales Outback Remote areas Rural areas Sheep industry Social conditions Wool industry Notes "Tracing the footsteps of C.E.W. Bean, Michelle Grattan revisits the Wool Track and paints a vivid picture of outback Australia today" - cover Library's N copy signed by the author. ANL Bibliography Bibliography: pages 318-333 Subject Bean, C. E. W. (Charles Edwin Woodrow), 1879-1968. Bean, C. E. W. (Charles Edwin Woodrow), 1879-1968. On the wool track Sheep shearers (Persons) -- Australia -- New South Wales -- Social conditions. Sheep industry -- Australia -- New South Wales -- History. Sheep shearers (Persons) -- Australia -- Juvenile literature. Wool industry -- Australia -- New South Wales. Sheep shearers (Persons) -- Australia -- New South Wales -- Social conditions -- 21st century. Sheep industry -- Australia -- New South Wales -- History -- 21st century. Rural conditions -- Australia -- New South Wales -- History -- 21st century. Wool industry -- Australia -- New South Wales. New South Wales -- Description and travel. Australia -- Description and travel. New South Wales -- Rural conditions -- History. New South Wales -- History. New South Wales -- Social conditions -- 21st century. New South Wales -- Rural conditions -- 21st century. Genre/Form Biographies. History. LC no. 2004353050 ISBN 1740511670 :

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