Physical description

A volume of 221 pages featuring text and images.

Summary

A story of the great days of riverboats on Australia's inland rivers written from personal recollections of the author. He spent most of his working life on the rivers. William Drage worked as deckhand, barge hand, mate, and master. Life on the rivers was full of drama and variety, strange characters and unexpected adventures.

William Drage's story of the boats he served and the men he knew is a lively description of a vanished world: a nostalgic glimpse into a way of life that was uniquely Australian and disappeared forever.