On Mount Emu Creek: The Story of a Nineteenth-Century Victorian Sheep Station by Mary Turner Shaw (Second Hand Book)

SECOND HAND BOOK — EX LIBRARY

Wooriwyrite [Wu-ri-wu-rite] was the home that Miss Turner Shaw remembers ‘with all the luminance of a child’s first world’, and in tracing its establishment and growth over three generations, she has made a particularly significant contribution to the story of Australia’s pastoral economy, and of the Western District of Victoria in particular.

The book began to take shape when her father handed her two small notebooks–the diaries of Thomas Anderson–and remarked that ‘One day, they may be interesting’. The diaries opened with Anderson’s marriage at Wooryrite in December 1850; and they ended abruptly less than four years later, shortly after he had entered into partnership with the author’s grandfather–Thomas Shaw.

The discovery that Tom Anderson had been fatally injured in August 1854, when his horse ran him against the store chimney at Elephant Bridge, and that his young wife had survived him by less than a year, posed the first of the many questions that Miss Shaw set out to answer: Who had first established Wooriwyrite? What part had Thomas Shaw played in its subsequent development?

Here now is the story of Tom Anderson, of his predecessors (J. G. Ware and Ebenezer Oliphant), and of his successors. It is the story of holdings and partnerships both in the Western District and in the Riverina, of the founding of Thomas Shaw’s pedigree Camden flock (whose progeny still survive), of station activities through the seasons, and of the Skipton shows, of homestead life from day to day, and of the energy that interest devoted to the planning and building first of a new woolshed and, later, of a thirty-roomed two-storey homestead.

Specifications:

Condition: Fair. Ex-library – library stamps and stickers, some markings on the front and back covers, some creasing on edges and corners, pages yellowed but in good condition.

Publisher: Robertson & Mullens

Year: 1969

Format: Hardcover

Pages: 208

ISBN: N/A

$15.00

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