Description
SECONDHAND BOOK
People who arrived and settled in Victoria built and shaped their environment over time to accord with their particular lifestyle. Some of the landmarks they made are now part of Victoria’s visual heritage, being adapted for continuing use or preserved and visited as places of historical interest. Others have crumbled into ruins, which nevertheless can still evoke the lives of past generations. More have been obliterated except for traces in the ground which only skilled archaeologists can recover.
Making Their Mark gives an account of the changing look of Victoria especially over the last 150 years, although the impact made by the Aborigines’ lifestyle before contact with Europeans is also covered briefly. In a lively and readable style, the author Susan Priestley traces the historical scene in which Melbourne, its suburbs, country towns, roads, railways, reservoirs, farms, holiday places and other elements in the Victorian landscape have evolved. There is also a chronology of events of importance to Victoria.
For People looking at Victoria today, whether they travel on commuter trains, holiday at Wilsons Promontory, farm the Wimmera plains, or simply enjoy an armchair view, the book gives a more informed and entertaining perspective on their surroundings.
Specifications:
Condition: Fair. General wear as well as some marks on cover, top edge and spine
Publisher: Fairfax, Syme & Weldon Associates
Year: 1984
Format: Paperback
Pages: 382pp
ISBN: 0949288071
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