Author: PAULL, RAYMOND.
Title: Old Walhalla. Portrait of a Gold Town.
Description: First Edition; Demy 8vo; pp. xi, 148; map, 14 b/w. plates, index, bound in original green cloth boards, dustjacket with minor chips on edges, free endpapers browned, very good copy. Parkville; Melbourne University Press; 1963. 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. Gold towns have become ghost towns in many corners of Australia, but none of them has the romantic attraction of Walhalla. The Author's vivid picture makes it live again.
Keywords: local history Australian mines Victoria gold mining Walhalla Australia goldmines gold
Title: Old Walhalla. Portrait of a Gold Town.
Description: First Edition; Demy 8vo; pp. xi, 148; map, 14 b/w. plates, index, bound in original green cloth boards, dustjacket with minor chips on edges, free endpapers browned, very good copy. Parkville; Melbourne University Press; 1963. 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. Gold towns have become ghost towns in many corners of Australia, but none of them has the romantic attraction of Walhalla. The Author's vivid picture makes it live again.
Keywords: local history Australian mines Victoria gold mining Walhalla Australia goldmines gold
Price: AUD 30.00 = appr. US$ 20.76 Seller: Time Booksellers
- Book number: 114243
- Book number: 114243