A Thousand Miles Away: A History of North Queensland to 1920

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Australian National University Press, 1970 - History - 366 pages
Relations between squatters and natives 1870-1890; early policies of assimilation; life on cattle stations; hostility to settlers; relations with Chinese and Papuans.

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Overlanders 186170
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Prospectors 186580
44
Planters 186578
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Aborigines acres alluvial Atherton Tableland Australia became bêche-de-mer Black boom Bowen Brisbane British Burdekin Cairns cane canefields Cape York Peninsula capital Cardwell cattle central mills centres Charters Towers Chillagoe Chinese claims coast coastal Colonial Sugar coloured labour Cooktown copper Croydon crushing Daintree Dalrymple district eighties Etheridge European expedition farmers field gold goldfields graziers Griffith growers Herald Herbert River Herberton Hodgkinson Ingham Innisfail interests investors Irvinebank Italian John Johnstone Kanaka Kennedy land Mackay manager McIlwraith Melbourne ment miles mining Moffat Mount Garnet natives North Queens North Queensland Northern Miner Pacific Islanders Palmer party pastoral pastoralists Philp pioneer plantation planters Port Denison Port Douglas properties prospectors Queensland Government railway Ravenswood reef returned Robert Philp rush season selectors settlement settlers South Wales squatters station sugar industry sugar-growers Sydney took town township Townsville tropical Valley of Lagoons wages workers

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About the author (1970)

Geoffrey Bolton was born in North Perth, Australia on November 5, 1931. He was educated at Wesley College, the University of Western Australia, and Oxford University. He was a professor at the Australian National University, Monash University, and the University of Queensland. He retired from academia in 1996, before serving as the Chancellor of Murdoch University from 2002 to 2006. He wrote 15 books during his lifetime including Alexander Forrest: His Life and Times, Daphne Street, and Land of Vision and Mirage: Western Australia since 1826. He was named an Officer of the Order of Australia in 1984 and West Australian of the Year in 2006. He died on September 4, 2015 at the age of 83.

Bibliographic information

TitleA Thousand Miles Away: A History of North Queensland to 1920
AuthorGeoffrey Curgenven Bolton
Edition3, illustrated, reprint
PublisherAustralian National University Press, 1970
Original fromthe University of California
DigitizedMar 6, 2007
ISBN0708100481, 9780708100486
Length366 pages
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