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Transport: An Australian History
Robert Lee
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Description for Transport: An Australian History
Hardcover. Trains, planes, boats and cars. What did Australians do before the invention of modern transport? This title tells the story of how transport in Australia has developed, and how it has impacted our lives. It brings together the stories of heroic and everyday enterprises in transport in shipping, roads, rail and aviation across Australia. Num Pages: 400 pages, 150 ill. BIC Classification: 1MBF; HBJM; HBTK; KNG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 240 x 210 x 25. Weight in Grams: 1315.
Trains, planes, boats and cars. What did Australians do before the invention of modern transport? Aborigines travelled by foot and used canoes made from large sheets of bark stripped from eucalyptus trees, but with European settlement new ideas and technologies emerged for crossing our vast and challenging country. Transport brings together the stories of heroic, groundbreaking and everyday enterprises in transport - in shipping, roads, rail and aviation - across Australia. This is the fascinating story of how transport in Australia has developed, and how it has impacted our lives.
Trains, planes, boats and cars. What did Australians do before the invention of modern transport? Aborigines travelled by foot and used canoes made from large sheets of bark stripped from eucalyptus trees, but with European settlement new ideas and technologies emerged for crossing our vast and challenging country. Transport brings together the stories of heroic, groundbreaking and everyday enterprises in transport - in shipping, roads, rail and aviation - across Australia. This is the fascinating story of how transport in Australia has developed, and how it has impacted our lives.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of New South Wales Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
400
Place of Publication
Sydney, NSW, Australia
ISBN
9781742232133
SKU
V9781742232133
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-3
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