ISBN10: 1876780304, ISBN13: 9781876780302, [publisher: Central Queensland University Press] Softcover The barefoot mailmen, heroic ANZACs, Fuzzy Wuzzy Angels and history of the Kokoda Trail in PNG. Critique The Kokoda Trail is a remote jungle track in the old Australian Territory of Papua where Aussie Diggers and the Fuzzy Wuzzy Angels battled desperately against Japanese invaders to save Australia in 1942. The Kokoda Trail campaign, fought out over six months and two days on a narrow front in appalling conditions, has become an honoured part of our Australian heritage. But there is much more to the Kokoda Trail than this. Historian and adventurer Stuart Hawthorne looks back 130 years over the Trail's captivating past. He traces the explorers, gold seekers, missionaries and colonial officials who pushed this tiny foot pad across unbelievably harsh country to set out a fascinating account of the fortunes of this 96.4 kilometre track. Did you know a surveyor set out the route of the first Kokoda Trail before Kokoda even existed? Or why it's the Kokoda Trail, not Track? Or who gave the Trail's 'Golden Staircase' its name? Thirty years in the making, The Kokoda Trail: A History provides the first complete account of this sinuous little footpad that holds such a cherished position in the Australian psyche. This book reveals for the first time that there is another, larger, history of the Kokoda Trail which is every bit as compelling and intriguing ...

Central Queensland University Press. Near Fine. Date: 2003. Paperback. 1876780304 . 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 269 pages . 2003. Central Queensland University Press ISBN 1876780304 9781876780302 [AU]

ISBN10: 1876780304, ISBN13: 9781876780302, [publisher: Central Queensland University Press, Rockhampton, Queensland] Softcover First Edition xiv 269 pages. Maps, indexed, illustrated. The edges are lightly bumped, else a clean, unmarked and solid copy. " The Kokoda Trail is a remote jungle track in the old Australian Territory of Papua where Aussie Diggers and the Fuzzy Wuzzy Angels battled desperately against Japanese invaders to save Australia in 1942. The Kokoda Trail campaign, fought out over six months and two days on a narrow front in appalling conditions, has become an honoured part of our Australian heritage. But there is much more to the Kokoda Trail than this. Historian and adventurer Stuart Hawthorne looks back 130 years over the Trail's captivating past. He traces the explorers, gold seekers, missionaries and colonial officials who pushed this tiny foot pad across unbelievably harsh country to set out a fascinating account of the fortunes of this 96.4 kilometre track. Did you know a surveyor set out the route of the first Kokoda Trail before Kokoda even existed? Or why it's the Kokoda Trail, not Track? Or who gave the Trail's 'Golden Staircase' its name? Thirty years in the making, The Kokoda Trail: A History provides the first complete account of this jungle track that holds such a cherished position in the Australian psyche. This book reveals for the first time that there is another, larger, history of the Kokoda Trail whic ...

Central Queensland University Press, Rockhampton, 2003. 4to.pp.xiv+ 269.index. illustrations,photographs,maps. Very Good quality large format softcover. ISBN 1876780304 The Kokoda Trail is a remotejungle track in the old Australian Territory of Papua where Aussie Diggers and the Fuzzy Wuzzy Angels battled desperately against the Japanese in 1942.It has now become an honoured part of Australian heritage.Stuart Hawthorne looks back 130 years over the Trails captivating past. Central Queensland University Press, Rockhampton, 2003 ISBN 1876780304 9781876780302 [AU]