Hauling The Loads. A History Of Australia's Working Horses And Bullocks

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Central Queensland University Press
Publisher Place: Australia
Publisher Year: 2005
Edition: Reprint

Description: 222 pages. Ex-Library. Book is in Very good condition throughout.

Publishers Description: The bullocky, cursing at his team; twenty or more horses harnessed to a towering load of wool bales or wheat bags, inching their way along a dusty track: these are central, enduring images of Australias past, immortalized by Lawson, Paterson and Furphy. Malcolm Kennedy is the first, however, to explore the essential part that beast of burden actually played in Australias development. From the arrival of the first horses and cattle with the First Fleet, Kennedy gives a remarkable picture of Australian life. He reveals how the horse was the secret weapon used against the Aborigines. He describes the growth of that uniquely Australian livelihood -- droving. He even investigates the pollution problems of horse-powered cities: what do do you do with over 200 tons of manure every day With exemplary and painstaking research, Malcolm Kennedy has produced a record of part of our history that is now lost.

ISBN: 9781876780630