Droving with Ben Taylor : up and down the Canning Stock Route in 1946 / by Len Hill.
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TextPublication details: Victoria Park, W.A. : Hesperian Press, 2009Description: xii, 224 p. : ill., maps, ports. ; 22 cmISBN: 9780859054720 (pbk.)Subject(s): Taylor, Ben, d. 1998 | Hill, Len, 1926- | Stock routes -- Western Australia | Droving -- Western Australia -- Canning Stock Route | Wells -- Western Australia -- Canning Stock Route | Canning Stock Route (W.A.) -- Description and travelSummary: Based on the diary of a Canning Stock Route drover. It is the only droving diary known from the 50 years of operations of the CSR, the longest and most remote stock route in the world. Here, detailed, the old hand, Ben Taylor, teaches the youthful Len Hill the art of droving in the desert lands. With horses and camels from Wiluma to Billiluna, and return with cattle, this unique account describes the pleasures and duties of a drovers life, the cattle, the land, and its inhabitants.
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Based on the diary of a Canning Stock Route drover. It is the only droving diary known from the 50 years of operations of the CSR, the longest and most remote stock route in the world. Here, detailed, the old hand, Ben Taylor, teaches the youthful Len Hill the art of droving in the desert lands. With horses and camels from Wiluma to Billiluna, and return with cattle, this unique account describes the pleasures and duties of a drovers life, the cattle, the land, and its inhabitants.
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