The Birdsville Track by Jocelyn Burt
The Birdsville Track by Jocelyn Burt
The Birdsville Track
by Jocelyn Burt
Rigby, 1973, colour photographs throughout, illustrated endpapers (maps), photographic title page, photographic boards, hardcover, dustjacket
Very Good Condition, minor edge and shelf wear, a little rubbing and bumping to edges and corners, no inscriptions, minor crumpling to title page; dustjacket shows a little edge and shelf wear with a little rubbing, bumping and chipping, small tears to spine (see photographs)
“Bearded stockmen blazed the Birdsville Track in the 1880s, when pioneering hopes ran high and the first cattle were brought from Queensland to the south through the new Port Augusta Oodnadatta railway. The tiny town of Birdsville, in the deep south-west of Queensland, became the focal point for the southern stock routes from the Channel Country, and from Birdsville the great mobs were driven to the railway at Marree.
The Birdsville Track runs along the Diamantina, past Goyder Lagoon, between the Warburton River and Cooper Creek to Kopperamanna, and over the rivers Clayton and Frome.”