Timeless because it is history, timelessly popular because it is so full of life, colour and adventure, ‘The Territory’ is the story of the first hundred years of white exploration, pioneering, and settlement in Australia’s tropic north. Based on the author’s first-hand knowledge and experience, this is the result not only of years of research but of thousands of kilometres of strenuous travel.
Cattle-droving over unknown wilderness, tragic encounters with Aborigines, the efforts to establish settlements that were cut off from the world and inevitably covered by the relentless growth of vegetation, the first crossing of the continent, the building of the Overland Telegraph Line, and the incredible lives of men and women of three generations--this is the stuff of ‘The Territory’.
Contents:
1. Winged Victory
2. Land of the Moon-Bow
3. Vikings of the Arafura
4. Phantoms of Failure
5. Strange Waters
6. Pack-Bells of John McKinlay
7. Tree of Knowledge
8. The Singing String
9. Forgotten Gold
10. To Let
11. A Lantern in the Scrub
12. The Conquistadores
13. Gold-mine in the Sky
14. Rich to Rottenness
15. Dots in the Map
16. On the Victoria
17. Bradshaw’s Run
18. White Ants
19. On With the Motley
20. Travellin’ Cattle
21. Poddy-Dodgers
22. The Diamond Eighty-Eight
23. Blackfella Dreamin’
24. Bos Buffelus
25. “Chokey”
26. Women of No-Man’s Land
27. Kingdom Come
28. The Last Bushman, or HMS Coolabah Tree
Appendix
Territory Phrases
Index
