Wool, wagons and clipper ships : transport, trade and travel in Australia 1830s-1880s / John Nichols...
Wool, wagons and clipper ships : transport, trade and travel in Australia 1830s-1880s / John Nichols...
Wool, wagons and clipper ships : transport, trade and travel in Australia 1830s-1880s / John Nicholson.
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Author / Creator
Publisher
Crows Nest, N.S.W. : Allen & Unwin, 2008.
Date
2008.
Call Numbers
NQ388.0994/23 , Q388.0994/13
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Language
English
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Physical content
32 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
Publication information
Publisher
Crows Nest, N.S.W. : Allen & Unwin, 2008.
Place of Publication
New South Wales
Date Published
2008.
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Scope and Contents
Summary
Describes Australia's major export industries from the 1830s, and how the biggest ones, wool and wheat, were carried by teams of bullocks, horses or camels to ports, then packed onto clipper ships to be taken to auction houses in Europe and America; and how people travelled in coaches, drays and so on; the reliance on horses right up to the 1950s.
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Full title
Wool, wagons and clipper ships : transport, trade and travel in Australia 1830s-1880s / John Nicholson.
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Notes
General note
Trade, transport and travel in Australia ; 3.
Includes index.
Bibliography: p. 31.
Audience note
For children.
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Call Numbers
NQ388.0994/23 , Q388.0994/13
Record Identifier
74VK3z0dwlPy
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VK3z0dwlPy
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ISBN
9781741751987 (hbk.) :
DDC
388.0994
MMS ID
991023763899702626
