More Great Properties of Country Victoria
The Western District's Golden Age
$56.44
- Hardcover
277 pages
- Release Date
30 October 2017
Summary
English novelist Anthony Trollope described the Western District squatters in the 1870s as ‘plentiful, proud, prejudiced, given to hospitality, impatient of contradiction a thoughtful on the future, and above all, conscious-perhaps a little too conscious-of their own importance a forty thousand sheep cannot be shorn without a piano; twenty thousand is the lowest number that renders napkins at dinner imperative’. But these squatters were also speculators and investors, whose entrepreneuship bu…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780522872392 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0522872395 |
| Author: | Richard Allen, Kimbal Baker |
| Publisher: | Melbourne University Press |
| Imprint: | Melbourne University Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 277 |
| Release Date: | 30 October 2017 |
| Weight: | 1.32kg |
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Richard Allen
Richard Allen has been a writer for more than 30 years and has written on a wide variety of subjects for The Australian Financial Review, The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald, Good Weekend, Sunday Telegraph (UK) and BRW. His previous books include Shimmering Spokes- One Australian’s 16,000 Kilometre Odyssey, Recollections of a Remarkable Age, Australia’s Remarkable Trees, The Spirit of Golf and How It Applies to Life, Great Properties of Country Victoria- The Western District’s Golden Age, and The Royal Melbourne Golf Club-125 Years.
Kimbal Baker is a Melbourne-based freelance photographer who has worked for ACP Publications and Agence France Presse. His photographs have appeared in numerous books. This book is his fourth collaboration with Richard Allen, and follows Australia’s Remarkable Trees, Great Properties of Country Victoria- The Western District’s Golden Age and The Courses of The Royal Melbourne Golf Club. Australia Post featured several of his photographs of Australian trees in a series of postage stamps and first day covers. His images have been archived in the National Library of Australia.
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