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Across Bass Strait ; Inter-Colonial Trade in Meat and Livestock
Paperback Edition: 1
Across Bass Strait is a history of the connection between squatters, merchants and mariners in developing the livestock trade in the 1840s for the meat supply to feed convicts in Van Diemen's Land. This long distant connection is reflected in the transformation of the landscape, both on land and sea. Their stories, underwritten by the need to provide food especially meat, link distant shores which until now have been barely acknowledged in the national narrative, yet from the edges of the two coast lines illustrate the layered environmental history of our continent.The trade established nineteenth-century Gippsland as a prime beef producer exporting through Port Albert, a now-forgotten port, and this account is based on merchants' records and letters from two families who were major players in this trade - the Crooke and Foster families.This little-known story deals with food miles to supply the fresh meat, wind power, seasonal conditions, competition and determined people, all themes still relevant today.
Publisher : Anchor Books
Publication date : 2021
Subjects: Non-fiction, Published in Australia, Humanities, History, Australasian & Pacific History