Bulls and Boabs by Athol Thomas

Bulls and Boabs

Kimberley People and Places

by Athol Thomas

Rigby, 1977 [First Edition], ISBN 0727001469, black and white photographic frontispiece, black and white photographic plates, illustrated end-papers (maps), hardcover, dust-jacket

Very Good Condition, some edge and shelf wear, some rubbing to edges and corners, previous owner inscription on front fly-leaf; price-clipped Mylar protected dust-jacket with minor edges and shelf wear, few scratches to Mylar plastic (see photographs)

"The Kimberley is no longer the unreachable back-of-beyond of Australia.  With the coming of such roads as the Eyre Highway and National Highway No. 1 and tourist centres, the region is ow within the compass range of every Australian.  And yet the Kimberley will perhaps always retain the spirit and the tang of our pioneering days.  It is the country of great cattle drives to open up the land, of the fierce problems of trying to keep a pioneering toe-hold in one of the world's most remote areas, of the devil-may-care days when Broome was the bustling pearl centre of the world, of the dashed hopes of the goldrusher, of a time when things happened 'between whites and blacks that nobody will ever know about'."