Riverboats | Ian Mudie

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Riverboats captures all the picturesque details of this fascinating chapter of early Australia, when Wilcannia, Wagga Wagga, Bourke and score more outback towns were ports. Paperback ed 1965

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What could be more help to an author than a close family link with his subjects? This was the wonderful advantage with which Ian Mudie began his chronicle of Australia's Inland merchant marine. His father was a close personal friend of W.R.Randell who figure prominently in this story. Born in Adelaide in 1911, Ian Mudie has been writing mainly poetry, since 1940. Anytime men and boats are found together there's colour and excitement. This is a lively account of Australia's inland merchant marine, the wood-fired stern wheeler and side wheelers that clanked along the Darling and the Murray rivers around the turn of the century. Riverboats captures all the picturesque details of this fascinating chapter of early Australia, when Wilcannia, Wagga Wagga, Bourke and score more outback towns were ports. Paperback ed 1965

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