Description
SECOND HAND BOOK
This book tells how the alluvial workings of Stringer’s Creek in the remote mountains of Gippsland, Victoria, grew into the busy mining town of Walhalla in the late nineteenth century. In its hey-day, Walhalla supported numerous hotels and churches, a brewery, its own newspaper, cricket teams and brass bands. The great Long Tunnel mine paid over 1 million in dividends. However, as the gold yields fell, the people drifted away.
Gold towns have become ghost towns in many corners of Australia, but none of them has the romantic attraction of Walhalla, Mr Paulls vivid picture makes it live again.
‘Raymond Paull … has added another chapter the tumultuous, pulsating saga of the Victoria gold rushes, and has reveals himself as a social historian of much ability of perception’- Sydney Morning Herald.
‘Mr Paull sieves the history of the place and its inhabitants with something of the miner’s own patience and grit. The result is a portrait of the impressive details’ – Times Literary Supplement.
Specifications:
Condition: Good, Spine of the book has a sticker on it.
Publisher: Melbourne University Press, London and New York: Cambridge University Press
Year: 1963
Format: Paperback
Pages: 148
ISBN: 9780522836981
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