by Bobbie Buchanan. The Pat Underwood story and how the Underwood's became such a force in the N.T. cattle industry.

Temporarily out of print

As a barely literate youth of fifteen, Sidney Kidman ran away from home and worked as an odd-job boy in a grog shanty in outback Australia. He went on to become the greatest pastoral landholder in modern history, acquiring a legendary reputation both at home and abroad as the Cattle King.

As an biographer Jill bowen shows, Kidman was much more than a grazier. In addition to his many successful business ventures and his contributions to the war effort, he has driven by a grand plan for the remote, arid areas of Australia. This kept locked in a battle with the land – and against drought. 520pp.

The best saga of pastoral Australia ever published... hard to describe without superlatives... in a hundred years the book will still be a classic.'

'... far better than any novel; an incomparable record of a greart family and of a series of great actions.' The Bulletin

When Patrick Durack left Western Ireland for Australia in 1853, he was to found a pioneering dynasty and build a cattle empire across the great stretches of Australia.
With a profound sense of family history, his grand-daughter, Mary Durack reconstructed the Durack saga - a story of intrepid men and ground-breaking adventure.
This sweeping tale of Australia and Australians remains a classic nearly fifty years on.

Pat Studdy-Clift. The full story of Elizabeth Jessie Hickman’s  circus career, cattle duffing, escape from the police and final taming. 226 pp. 

Catherine Retter & Shirley Sinclair. 

Matthew Flinders and Ann Chappelle. An insight into one of history’s most remarkable couples.  150pp

Miriam Estensen. Is a story of persistence, risk taking, driving ambition and frustration. A richly detailed account of tragedy and short lived triumph