Title The beckoning west : the story of H.S. Trotman and the Canning stock route

Published [Sydney] : Angus and Robertson, [1966]

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Description vii, 220 pages : 1 map ; 22 cm Summary Appendix 4 gives list of native waters and bores and wells sunk by members of Canning Stock Route party in 1908-10; p.58; Art of tracking described; p.75; Sandals made by natives found at Roy Hill; description of corroboree - songmen, dancers bodies decorated with paint and glued on down; p.87; Cooking of kangaroo described; p.88; Treatment of injuries; p.90; Brief description of circumcision method at initiation ceremony; p.127; Painted caves at Killagurra noted; method of catching spinifex rats described Analysis Canning Stock Route Canning, Alfred Wernam, 1860-1936 Surveying - Western Australia - History Surveyors - Western Australia Trotman, H. S. (Hubert Stanslake), 1874-1965 Western Australia - Discovery and exploration Notes map Bibliography Includes index Subject Canning, Alfred Wernam, 1860-1936 Canning, Alfred Wernam, 1862-1936 Trotman, Hubert Stanslake, 1874-1965. Trotman, Hubert S., 1874- Stock routes -- Western Australia Surveyors -- Australia -- Western Australia. SUBJECT Canning Stock Route (W.A.) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85019627 Canning Stock Route (W.A.) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85019627 -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005024 Western Australia http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79089339 -- Discovery and exploration. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99002238 Author Smith, Eleanor (Eleanor Page) LC no. 66017964 ISBN 0909699216

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