Stitching the Stock Route

Eileen Lanagan first woman down the Canning

Compiled and edited by Phil Bianchi, Peter Bridge, Ethel Bianchi, Angela Teague, Maria Bloomfield

Newly married and not wishing to spend four months at home on her own, Eileen Lanagan becomes the first white woman to travel the Canning Stock Route.

Contains her diary and a biography by Miriam Howard-Wright with details of their life on Wongawol Station, Eileen’s bush cookery book, obituaries and details travelling down the CSR and of the graves at CSR Well 40.

ISBN 978-0-85905-484-3 (Carlisle, Hesperian Press, 2010), A4, 66 pages, illustrated.

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