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Analysis of the role of water management in the development of Queensland after its separation from NSW. The book is divided into four chronological parts, each beginning with a discussion of general background issues. The author is a prolific and well-known writer and lecturer in human geography.
This book revolves around facts and incidents connected with the work of frontier life in North Queensland. It also explores the progress of pastoral occupation in the early days. In this book, the author provides information from many of the early settlers to place on record a few of the names and incidents connected with the foundation of the pastoral industry in the far north, an industry which was the forerunner of all other settlements there, and still is the main source of the State's export trade.
One chapter only on natives; Very general.
Detailed study of Aboriginal life in northern Queensland. Includes chapters on the environmental setting, rituals, diet, rock art and camp sites, and a catalogue of relevant ethnographic collections. Volume 10 in the series TStudies in North Queensland History'.