The Gulf Country, the story of people and place in outback Queensland, Richard J. Martin
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The Gulf Country, the story of people and place in outback Queensland, Richard J. Martin
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eng
resource.biographical
contains biographical information
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non fiction
Main title
The Gulf Country
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Richard J. Martin
Sub title
the story of people and place in outback Queensland
Summary
With its great rivers, grassy plains and mangrove-fringed coastline, Queensland's remote Gulf Country is rich and fertile land. It has long been home to Aboriginal people and, since the 1860s, also to Europeans and to settlers with Chinese, Japanese and Afghan ancestry. Richard J. Martin tells the story of a century-and-a-half of exploration and colonisation, the growth of cattle and mining industries, and the impact of Christian missionaries and Indigenous activism, through to the present day. He acknowledges the brutal realities of violence and dispossession, as well as the challenges of life on the land in northern Australia. Drawing on extensive interviews with people across the Gulf Country, this is a lively and colourful account of tight-knit communities, relationships across cultures and resilience in the face of adversity
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- Country life -- Carpentaria, Gulf of (N.T. and Qld.) -- Biography
- Aboriginal Australians -- Carpentaria, Gulf of (N.T. and Qld.) -- History
- Burketown Region (Qld.) -- Economic conditions -- History
- Carpentaria, Gulf of (N.T. and Qld.) -- Social conditions
- Carpentaria, Gulf of (N.T. and Qld.) -- History
- Nonfiction
- Carpentaria, Gulf of (N.T. and Qld.) -- Discovery and exploration
- Ranch life -- Australia -- Carpentaria, Gulf of (N.T. and Qld.) -- Biography
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- Country life -- Carpentaria, Gulf of (N.T. and Qld.) -- Biography
- Aboriginal Australians -- Carpentaria, Gulf of (N.T. and Qld.) -- History
- Burketown Region (Qld.) -- Economic conditions -- History
- Carpentaria, Gulf of (N.T. and Qld.) -- Social conditions
- Carpentaria, Gulf of (N.T. and Qld.) -- History
- Nonfiction
- Carpentaria, Gulf of (N.T. and Qld.) -- Discovery and exploration
- Ranch life -- Australia -- Carpentaria, Gulf of (N.T. and Qld.) -- Biography
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- Author1