Wool, wagons and clipper ships : transport, trade and travel in Australia 1830s-1880s
Nicholson, John, 1950-2008
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| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
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| GLADESVILLE | CHILDRENS NON-FICTION | J 388.09 NICHScience & Technology | Available |
| RYDE | CHILDRENS NON-FICTION | J 629.2 NICHScience & Technology | Available |
Describes Australia's major export industries from the 1830s, and how the biggest ones, wool and wheat, were carried by teams of bullocks, horses or camels to ports, then packed onto clipper ships to be taken to auction houses in Europe and America; and how people travelled in coaches, drays and so on; the reliance on horses right up to the 1950s.
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Imprint:
Crows Nest, N.S.W. : Allen & Unwin, 2008.
Collation:
32 p. : col. ill. ; 28 cm.
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Notes:
Includes index.Bibliography: p. 31.
Audience:
For children.
ISBN:
9781741751987 (hbk)
Dewey class:
388.0994388.09629.2
Language:
English
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BRN:
204196
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| GLADESVILLE | CHILDRENS NON-FICTION | J 388.09 NICHScience & Technology | Available |
| RYDE | CHILDRENS NON-FICTION | J 629.2 NICHScience & Technology | Available |