The El Questro Story

Australian History Memoir Biography Aviation History Aboriginal Studies Pioneer Life Travel & Tourism Archaeology & Rock Art

First-edition paperback copy of Meg Hornabrook’s The El Questro Story—the only book-length telling of how a million-acre cattle station in Western Australia’s wild Kimberley became one of the world’s most iconic tourism destinations. Published by Book Pod in 2012 and now scarce in collectible condition, this 1st edition is clean, tight and unread-looking, making it the copy that regional-history buffs, travellers and high-spot collectors actively hunt for.

Inside, Hornabrook—grand-daughter of the original 1900s settlers—combines family diary, station ledger and oral history to trace El Questro from its 1800s exploration days, through aviation pioneers landing on dirt strips, to the discovery of 10 000-year-old Gwion-Gwion rock art that changed Australian archaeology. The narrative is rich with station characters, Aboriginal stockmen, Wyndham meat-workers and the 1990s Swiss tourists whose cash turned a drought-stricken property into a luxury wilderness lodge, so readers get both sweeping Kimberley panorama and intimate, boots-in-the-dust detail.

For collectors, the value lies in the book’s unique intersection of subjects: Aboriginal culture, aviation, rock-art conservation, modern tourism and family memoir all bound in one Kimberley epic. Very-good, unmarked pages mean the maps and rare archival photographs remain crisp—ideal for gifting to anyone who has driven the Gibb River Road, flown over the Bungle Bungle, or simply wants a first-hand account of Australia’s last frontier. Keywords: El Questro first edition, Meg Hornabrook signed, Kimberley pioneers, Australian cattle station history, Gwion Gwion rock art, Broome collectible, The El Questro Story 2012.

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