Description
It was the brave and adventurous pioneers who opened up much of outback Australia for agriculture and settlement. They took enormous risks, financially and personally, in venturing further and further into inland Australia.
This is the story of one family’s adventure as they continued to push the boundaries against the harshness of the outback environment. When the Northern Territory’s Barkly Tableland was auctioned for settlement, Thomas Guthrie took on his biggest challenge by purchasing a million acres: that set the scene for the longest sheep drive in Australian history.
Eleven thousand sheep left the north-west Vi9ctorian property Rich Avon in September 1882. After 16 months and 3500 kilometres of following rivers and battling drought, crisscrossing the continent from south to north, the droving team reached its destination. Longreach’s Stockman’s Hall of Fame called it ‘the longest ever droving trip with sheep’.
ISBN: 9780958120272
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