Early Days in North Queensland

A firsthand account recounts exploration and settlement of North Queensland, combining travel recollections, navigation and inland routes, and descriptions of how grazing and pastoral occupation expanded across the landscape. It traces the emergence of coastal and inland towns, notes mineral prospects, and considers Indigenous customs and relations. Chapters survey physical geography and climate, collect anecdotes and profiles of individuals involved in frontier life, and append poems and other literary fragments that reflect daily experience on the remote northern frontier.