The Bicycle and the Bush: Man and Machine in Rural Australia

250 pp + vi pp (index), b/w ills throughout, maps, biographical sketches, bibliography, end-paper maps: principal routes of overland cycle journeys of the 1890s. Papered boards in jacket. Some fading to jacket as usual, minor foxing to top edge. The author looks at the nature and widespread use of the bicycle in the outback by shearers, clergymen, boundary riders, cycle express messengers, Kalgoorlie pipeline and Western Australian rabbit fence patrols, swagmen, kangaroo shooters, drovers, commercial travellers, and dentists. He recounts the major events and developments in Australian cycling history. Size: 4to.