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Allen & Unwin, Australia, 2007. Hardcover (Printed Boards). Very Good Condition. How did early white settlers in Australia survive and prosper?This book shows convicts manhandling carts and building roads, sealing gangs doing it tough on remote islands, whaling crews harpooning their prey, timber-getters razing vast tracts of cedar forest, woolgrowers experimenting with merino sheep, shipbuilders and sailors and trailblazers and bullockies. Merchants did a roaring trade in sealskins, whale oil and timber, until there were almost no seals, whales or cedar trees left. What could they sell to the world that would not be used up so quickly?Nicholson's second book in his groundbreaking series 'Transport, Trade and Travel in Australia' describes the early days of white settlement, and the first attempts to make Australia a trading nation. 32 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Children's::Children's Non Fiction; Children;…
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Cedar, Seals and Whaling Ships [Transport, Trade and Travel in Australia 1788 - 1830s]. Tapa dura - 2007
de Nicholson, John.
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- Título Cedar, Seals and Whaling Ships [Transport, Trade and Travel in Australia 1788 - 1830s].
- Autor Nicholson, John.
- Encuadernación Tapa dura
- Edición 1st ed.
- Páginas 416
- Editorial Allen & Unwin, Sydney
- Fecha de publicación 2007
- ISBN 9781741750034
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Cedar, Seals and Whaling ships: Transport, Trade and Travel in Australia 1788-1830s
de John Nicholson
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- Tapa dura
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- Usado - Very Good Condition
- Encuadernación
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
- 9781741750034 / 1741750032
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Librería
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Bowral, New South Wales, Australia
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