The Rabbit King Tapa blanda - 1996

Boniyong Pastoral Co., 1996. Paperback. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Niddrie: Boniyong Pastoral Co.. Near Fine. 1996. First Edition. Paperback. 0646266721 . With photographic illustrations, a very good copy. At age 15 Jack McCraith reached a momentous decision; Everyone knows how to catch rabbits, he said. I'll learn how to sell them. Whithin 20 years he controlled a rabbit empire which stretched across half of Australia. In a 40 year carreer, he exported more then 130 million rabbits. The Rabbit King is a previously untold story of the Australian rabbit industry, and how it kept some people alive in the harshest times and made other people very rich. ; 245 x 175mm; 212 pages .

Niddrie, Vic. : Boniyong Pastoral Co., 1996. Softcover. Used|Very Good. AUSTRALIANA AUSTRALIAN FAUNA (Agriculture) BIOGRAPHY At the age 15, Jack McCraith reached a momentous decision; ""Everyone knows how to catch rabbits,"" he said. ""I'll learn how to sell them."" On his first buying trip, he biked into the countryside and bought two rabbits which he skinned in the back yard and hawked around the neighbours. Within 20 years he controlled a rabbit empire which stretched across half of Australia. In a 40 year career, he exported more then 130 million rabbits. Wherever the rabbits went, he went too, Rabbit chillers and trucks, emblazoned with the legend JOHN A. McCRAITH, Rabbit Exporter, Spencer Street, Melbourne, dotted the back country from the Simpson Desert to the Nullabor Plains. It was a cut-throat and difficult industry filled with unscrupulous people and no-hopers. Chimers were robbed or sabotaged, buyers absconded with the buying money, trucks broke down hundreds of kilometres from the… Leer más