Due North

DUE NORTH : The Exploration of the North West of Western Australia

PRINCIPAL EDITOR Peter J. Bridge, OAM.

Published 2020.

 

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The most important book on the North West for a century. Contains all the exploration diaries for the North West from 1861 to circa 1900. This Volume contains important first contact material. It is illustrated with maps and photographs of the explorers with their biographies.

A remarkable group of less than a hundred men with a few women opened the harsh North West frontier and made The North within ten years of its first settlement.

The exploration and settlement of the North West was spurred by the rush for pastoral land, and of course the lure of gold and other minerals. The failure of the West Kimberley Camden Harbour settlement directed the pastoral investors to the north-west coast, the results of which are detailed in this volume. The early interest in gold did not bear fruit until the 1880s, and the wider commitment to minerals and mining that are the economic mainstay of the nation, until nearly a century after that.

ISBN 978-0-85905-837-7

Hardcover, Case Bound, Dust Jacket), Illustrated, Maps, Indexes, 892 pages, 2kg+.

Published 2020.

$160. 00 plus postage.

 

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