Item #118546 Fought and Won. John LEWIS.
Fought and Won

Fought and Won

Adelaide, W.K. Thomas & Co., 1922.

Octavo, xviii, 243 pages plus 25 plates and a folding map.

Purple cloth lettered in gilt and decorated in black on both the spine and front cover; cloth lightly marked and flecked, with the spine lightly sunned; edges a little dusty; endpapers (the front flyleaf being the half-title) offset; map shows trifling signs of handling; a very good copy.

John Lewis (1844-1923), 'explorer, bushman, drover, roughrider, pastoralist, business man, legislator, historian' (from the foreword by Ernest Whitington). This memoir contains much on the early days in the Northern Territory: 'In 1872, with his brother James and others, Lewis went overland to the Northern Territory. En route, the government commissioned him as a courier between the constructing parties on the north and south ends of the overland telegraph line. At Palmerston (Darwin) he equipped and ran the Telegraph Prospecting and Goldmining Co. Next year he formed the Coburg Cattle Co. near Port Essington and conducted pastoral, exploration, gold-mining and trading operations. In 1876 he returned to South Australia' ('Australian Dictionary of Biography'). His father James accompanied Charles Sturt in 1844-45; one of his sons was the industrialist Essington Lewis.

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