The second book in John Nicholson's valuable Transport Trade and Travel series explores the developing technology and economy of Australia at the hands of the new white settlers: whaling, sealing, farming, timber-felling, ship-building, exploring and transporting goods by land and sea.
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
- shipbuildersand sailors, trailblazers and bullockies.
Merchants did a roaring trade in sealskins, whale oil and timber, until there were almost 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.
