High Endeavour - Story of the Mackenzie Country

This is no dull chronology of dates and figures. Here the bones of dead history have been revitalised into the living flesh of dynamic, striving men and women. With them you relive their fears and hopes, sorrows and joys, their failures and their successes in taming a wilderness.

In subduing this unrelenting highland, these settlers had to pit their will-power, resourcefulness and grim determination against privations, inhospitable soil, Sahara summers, Arctic winters and above all, isolation and loneliness. Here before you, in a cavalcade of endeavour, march a century of brave souls prepared to challenge nature in her wildest moods. They all played their part - explorers, shepherds, shearers, swaggers, wagoners, squatters - and brave women who told their menfolk, 'Wheresoever you go, I will follow.'

Format: Hardback - Great condition

Publisher: William Vance

Published: 1966