The Riverboat Days On The Murray Hardback Book

River Boat Days: On the Murray, Darling, Murrumbidgee (Hardback, 1974)

In this work, the author recreates the color, adventure, and drama of the river trade. His heroines are the steamers themselves -- from elegant stern wheelers like the Sturt and the Lady Daly to hard working barge steamers such as Adelaide, Sarah Jane, and Cannally, the wandering work boats and trading boats such as The Wandering Jew, Kookaburra, and Etona, and 'snaggers' like Melbourne and the Grappler. His heroes are the men who faced the hard, lonely, and often dangerous life on the river.

Hardback, DJ, b/w ill., 132pp.

Condition: VG book, Wear and fading to the dust jacket, good binding and clean unmarked pages. Inscription written inside front.

Published: Lansdowne, Melbourne, 1974