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On the Wool Track
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352 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1910
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C.E.W. Bean
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Official historian of Australia's involvement in World War I.
C.E.W. Bean (Charles Edwin Woodrow Bean)wrote the first 6 volumes of the Official History.
The official history has been digitised and is available:
http://www.awm.gov.au/histories/first...
Official historian of Australia's involvement in World War I.
C.E.W. Bean (Charles Edwin Woodrow Bean)wrote the first 6 volumes of the Official History.
The official history has been digitised and is available:
http://www.awm.gov.au/histories/first...
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August 3, 2022
This is an amazing book. I only knew C. E. W. Bean as a World War One historian. I did not know until recently that he had written a book about the Australian wool industry. He must have been a remarkably astute observer, as well as a person who could absorb and integrate vast amounts of information in a short space of time, because I cannot believe he spent more than a relatively short time visiting the Australian outback.
Even though the book is non-fiction, it reads more like fiction in many ways. There is no attempt made to reference anything, and there are a number of memorable descriptive passages. The book gives the impression that it has been written from memory, driven by a powerful and unfailing sense of intuition. It works superbly as a document that records a critical chapter in the history of Australia that has now well and truly passed.
Even though the book is non-fiction, it reads more like fiction in many ways. There is no attempt made to reference anything, and there are a number of memorable descriptive passages. The book gives the impression that it has been written from memory, driven by a powerful and unfailing sense of intuition. It works superbly as a document that records a critical chapter in the history of Australia that has now well and truly passed.
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