Description
SECONDHAND BOOK – EX-LIBRARY
It is only through histories of this type which describe the settlement of our towns and the personalities of those who were responsible for their development that the real story of Australia is written.
Most of us know Point Lonsdale as the lighthouse at the entrance to Port Phillip Bay. The author, who has lived there all her life, begins its history with the attempts of Bass, Flinders and Grant to discover the entrance to the Bay.
She follows its development from the building of the first house and post office, and the establishment of the first lighthouse after numerous wrecks on the coast. She invests the lives of those who lived there with a nostalgic charm, ending her account in the year 1910, when Point Lonsdale had not seen the end of ‘those pleasant graceful days more than two world wars ago, …when Britannia ruled the waves’.
Specifications:
Condition: Fair – ex-library copy with library stickers, slight yellowing of pages, spot marks on dust jacket cover.
Publisher: The Hawthorn Press
Year: 1970 (first published 1949)
Format: Hardback, with dustjacket
Pages: 87pp
ISBN: 725600047
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