Description:
University of Western Australia Press, 1975. Hardcover in Dustjacket. Edgeworn dustjacket. WEST AUSTRALIANAHistory of the 'Victoria' District north of Perth WA. Includes accounts of early contacts and conflict between Aborigines and explorers and settlers.The Victoria District (Irwin Greenough district)was the first British settlement outside the triangle of Perth, York and Albany, the first area where gold and coal were found in the colony; the first place for cotton to be planted and the first railway was built. This book includes accounts of early contacts and conflict between Aborigines and explorers and settlers. Within a few years, favourable seasons and natural grass made the district the ""granary of the colony"", and the original settlers wealthy men. While ticket-of-leave me worked in the lead mines, on the stations and farms, the wealthy settlers fought for independence from a distant legislature, and women of all classes battled all the difficulties of isolation'""Sister Mary Albertus…
Read More No image available
Details
- Title Ancient Landmarks
- Author Mary A. Bain
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition first edition -
- Publisher University of Western Australia Press, Australia
- Date December 1981
- ISBN 9780855640903
More Copies for Sale
ANCIENT LANDMARKS: A Social and Economic History of the Victoria District of Western Australia 1839 - 1894
by Bain, Mary Albertus
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Used - Edgeworn dustjacket
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
- 9780855640903 / 0855640901
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Fremantle, Western Australia, Australia
- Item Price
-
SGD 54.61SGD 45.51 shipping to USA
Show Details
Item Price
SGD 54.61
SGD 45.51
shipping to USA