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The Gifts of Frank Cobbold

By Arthur W. Upfield

Book information

Publisher
ETT Imprint
Year
2018
ISBN
1925416216, 9781925416213
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
4 MB (3976070 bytes)
Pages
278\0
Time added
2022-09-04 15:48:23

Description

This biography of Frank Cobbold opens when Frank goes to sea on a Clipper aged 14. It follows him through inexperience as a Fijian trader who escaped the cannibals' cook pot and survived one of the worst hurricanes in living memory. In Australia he learned the skills of a surveyor and quickly became a sought-after and trusted station manager. Despite problems that would have defeated a less resolute man he took droughts, cheats and unyielding land tenure regulations in his stride to become one of Australia's great pioneering pastoralists. Admired by fellow bushmen, trusted by his partners and wooed by bankers, his gritty determination earned him a small fortune which he gave away. It's a remarkable story.

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