On the Wool Track

by C.E.W. Bean

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.

332 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1910

About the author

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_...

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...

Reviews

[Stephen Whiteside · Rating 4 out of 5]

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.