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SECOND HAND BOOK – EX-LIBRARY
Mick Woiwod’s second book, Kangaroo Ground: The Highland Taken is a study of the first European community to establish along the middle reaches of the Yarra Valley. First came the Donaldsons who in 1840 chose one square mile of what proved to be the most productive patch of country in the entire region. However, within months of settlement, family members were bailed up and robbed by a band of roving bushrangers,
Fearful also of attack from local tribes-people, the Donaldsons invited in to their productive upland fellow Scots who by the 1850’s converted the former Wurundjeri kangaroo grounds into extensive fields of wheat.
This book is the story of how this close-knit community of Scottish Presbyterians, for the better part of a century, industriously maintained their position at the cutting edge of both civic and agricultural endeavour.
Specifications:
Condition: Good – ex-library book, spine and inside pages contain library labels, general wear to cover.
Publisher: Tarcoola Press
Year: 1994
Format: Hardback, no dustjacket
Pages: 312pp
ISBN: 0646209000
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