Author

Publication

2006-01-30 - Cambridge University Press

Language

English

Word Count

108,000 words, Guess

Page Count

432 pages

Physical Format

Paperback

Identifiers

  • Open LibraryOL7751589M
  • ISBN-100521677831
  • ISBN-139780521677837
  • OCLC Control Number224309535
  • Better World Books9780521677837

First Sentence

THE CHILDHOOD AND adolescence of Herbert Cole Coombs were shaped by two modernising forces that transformed the landscape and social life of the south-west of Western Australia in the thirty years (1895-1925) after the Kalgoorlie and Coolgardie gold rushes: the spread of a railway system to open up land to intensive agriculture, and the systematic cultivation of children's minds, wherever their parents tilled the soil, in a comprehensive and newly professionalised public education system.

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