Jock Makin

This engrossing book tells the rich story of the Victoria River Station in the N.T, from early white explorers who battled the vastness of the environment on their gruelling expeditions inland in search of good pastoral country, to the present day. This book captures the spirit of what was once the world's largest cattle run and this updated edition incorporates the recent history of 'The Big Run' under the management of Janet Holmes a Court's Heytesbury Pastoral Group.

A story of the tough and dangerous early days in Australia. A sequel to the very successful Mayhem and Murder in Pioneering Queensland. The case histories of specific crimes and their legal persecution are evoked through scholarly research, but also with literary flair and intimate characterisation in a way that brings Queensland's social history one hundred years ago to a fascinating new life.

Gerald Walsh. 

Crisp as a whipcrack this book is full of colourful people, bizare incidents and little known facts about bush life in Australia. 170pp.

Ron Brown is a man with a tale to tell.  Fortunately, he shared an interest in Australian history with Pat Studdy-Clift.  Together they spent many happy days of collaboration when Ron told to her his experiences in the Red Heart of Australia, where he was known and loved as "Brownie of the Finke".

His stories cover the transition period from 1945 to 1952 when he was the last of the Central Australian Police Camel Patrolmen emerging into a new age.  As a lone representative of the white man's law and mediator in many a tribal feud, he patrolled a police district larger than the state of Victoria. S/c