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The Longest Fence in the World

by F. H. Broomhall

ISBN 0-85905-147-1, (1991, 2013), illustrated, 197pp, 350grams.

$35.00 + POST


A limited facsimile edition of the 1991 edition.
Frank Broomhall, after serving in Ireland, Mesopotamia, Persia, and India, joined the Rabbit Department in 1926 and spent 14 months as a boundary rider on the Rabbit Proof Fence. After farming and government work he completed a BA on retirement. He had several history books published.
This is the history of the Rabbit Proof Fence and the story of the men who made it and rode it. One of the great stories of the bush in WA.