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020			_a9781760291532 _q(paperback)
020			_a1760291536 _q(paperback)
040			_aWWBK _beng _erda
042			_aanuc
099			_a994.02 _bSTO
100	1		_aStone, Barry, _eauthor. _9134699
245	1	4	_aThe squatters : _bthe story of Australia's pastoral pioneers / _cBarry Stone.
264		1	_aCrows Nest, NSW : _bAllen & Unwin, _c2019.
264		4	_c©2019.
300			_a245 pages : _billustrations ; _c24 cm.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent.
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia.
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_aFor the early settlers who came from Britain's crowded cities and tiny villages, it must have been extraordinarily liberating to pack their belongings onto a bullock dray and head beyond the reach of meddlesome authorities to claim new land for themselves. Settlers spread out across inland Australia constructing windmills and fences, dry-stone walls and storehouses, livestock yards and droving routes, the traces of which can still be seen today. The fortunate and indomitable succeeded, while countless others succumbed to drought and flood. Those who were successful became a class all their own: the scrub aristocrats. Barry Stone has scoured through diaries, journals and newspapers, and sorted myth from legend. He tells the stories of pioneers whose vision and hard work built pastoral empires running thousands of head of stock, providing meat for a growing colony and wool for export, a rural juggernaut that would lay the foundations of a prosperous nation.
650		0	_aSquatters _zAustralia _xHistory _y1788-1851. _9134700
650		0	_aLand settlement _zAustralia _xHistory. _913434
650		0	_aFrontier and pioneer life _zAustralia. _913803
651		0	_aAustralia _xHistory _y1788-1851. _913435
651		0	_aAustralia _xSocial conditions _y1788-1851. _969533
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