{"product_id":"darwin-derek-pugh-9780645737400","title":"Darwin: Survival of a City - The 1890s","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe last decade of the nineteenth century was a tough time for South Australia's Top End settlement of Palmerston. The major industries of mining, pastoralism, and agriculture suffered from downturn, disease and distance. The South Australians had had enough of their 'white elephant' and, when Palmerston blew away in the Great Hurricane of 1897, the calls for the Northern Territory's return to the British Colonial Government grew louder.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut the Territory, as ever, was full of resilient and resourceful characters. They appear in these pages: judges, railway gangers, bushmen, buffalo hunters, hoteliers, Chinese miners, Aboriginal station hands, explorers, cross-country cyclists, murderers, and more.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTerritorians were, as Banjo Patterson described them, full of 'booze, blow and blasphemy' - but even he couldn't wait to return.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDerek Pugh brings the Darwin of the 1890s alive\u003c\/em\u003e. (Hon Sally Thomas AC).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Derek Pugh\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0645737402\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780645737400\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Derek Pugh\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/01\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 308\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.91lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.65d","brand":"Derek Pugh","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46451140296959,"sku":"9780645737400","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_7481032b-3797-469e-ac91-d1320868a496.jpg?v=1735876574","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/darwin-derek-pugh-9780645737400","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}