Two AmeriCA cowboys have signed on to help drive a huge herd of cattle across the northern AUtralian desert to the gold fields of the Kimberley Mountains.
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An abbreviated version of this tale called The Wilderness Trek was published in 1944, although the original novel was written in 1937 after the author's 1935 visit to Australia. Here it is presented in its original form; at 615 pages, it is among the usually concise Grey's longest novels. It is the story of one of the most dangerous cattle drives ever undertaken across the outback, covering several thousand miles of rough wilderness and parched desert and ending at the Kimberly Mountains on the northwest coast, where gold was plentiful but beef was in short supply. A pair of American cowboys, Sterl Hazelton and Red Krehl, who left home after an unfortunate shooting incident, help the Aussie drovers and find both adventure and romance down under. (Readers should be aware that an ugly racial epithet appears in dialogue about Australian aborigines.) Budd Arthur
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This edition contains all the original prose that we have come to expect from this master of the Western genre. Not a word has been cut! Like a lot of ZGs work from the Thirties, it seems a little dated today, but still worth the time. Be aware that this is not a typical 200 page airport or beach book that you can knock off in a long rainy afternoon. This will keep you busy through several rainy weekends. Think of it as a LONG stroll down memory lane. They aren't publishing books like this any more.
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Zane Grey does for Australia what he did for the American Southwest, and this is: Make it the place to be! The master of descriptive prose has given the uninformed reader a journey, a travelogue, of what it would be like to cross the Australian Outback. And in spite of the period of history it is set, a suspect the trip would be much the same today. Through the eyes of two American cowboys, Australia comes alive for the reader--the flora, the fauna, the heat, the dust, the water, or lack there of, the strange and the exotic are all displayed. There are rustlers, and stampedes, and romance as well, or it wouldn't be Zane Grey. It is great to at last to be able to read the full work, not some abridgement.
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thet hombre, plenty black fella, fella close, thet bird, yore hosses, trampling roar, main mob, other drovers, young drover, thet way, dead steer, right heah, white fella, old pard, two drovers Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Tne Greal Trek, Stanley Dann, Eric Dann, Red Krehl, Never Never, The Greal Trek, Beryl Dann, Lady Jane, Mister Dann, Sterl Hazelton, Holy Mackeli, Doré's Bush, Miss Dann, Ash Ormiston, Miss Leslie, Missus Slyter, Presently Sterl, Mister Krehl, Mister Cowboy, Stone Age, Leslie Slyter, Mister Slyter, Miss Beryl, While Friday, Uncle Eric Browse Sample Pages:
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thet hombre, plenty black fella, fella close, thet bird, yore hosses, trampling roar, main mob, other drovers, young drover, thet way, dead steer, right heah, white fella, old pard, two drovers Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Tne Greal Trek, Stanley Dann, Eric Dann, Red Krehl, Never Never, The Greal Trek, Beryl Dann, Lady Jane, Mister Dann, Sterl Hazelton, Holy Mackeli, Doré's Bush, Miss Dann, Ash Ormiston, Miss Leslie, Missus Slyter, Presently Sterl, Mister Krehl, Mister Cowboy, Stone Age, Leslie Slyter, Mister Slyter, Miss Beryl, While Friday, Uncle Eric Browse Sample Pages:
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