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SECOND HAND BOOK
This history of the Dandenongs and the Fern Tree Gully region is a pioneering study, carefully and exhaustively researched but always intensely readable. The authors concern is always with people, and the Gully region possessed from the start its share of entrepreneurs and eccentrics, get-rich-quick speculators and hard-working farmers. The history of men such as James Clow, clergyman, missionary and pastoralist, and John Wood Beilby, explorer, intellectual and unsuccessful speculator, bring these early days to life, along with the story of the regions discovery as one of the countries first ‘tourist’ resorts. From the arrival of the first pastoralists, and the struggles of the early agriculturalists, through the coming of the railways to the gradual absorption of much of the district into part of urban Melbourne, the history of this region encompasses many of the important episodes in Victorian history. Extensively illustrated with photographs and maps, the book also includes a wide range of quotations from original newspapers and documents which allow readers to paint their own picture of the regions’ history.
Paperback, 328pp, 1983
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