| Description |
x, 180 pages : illustrations., maps, portraits ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Thoroughbred territory: Point Cook -- Upstairs, downstairs: Werribee -- Buckley takes his chance: Geelong -- Home secrets: Geelong -- Elizabeth Austin's lonely mansion: Winchelsea -- How they beat the rip: Queenscliff -- Waves of nostalgia: Torquay -- Shipboard party ends in tragedy: Port Campbell -- A refuge by the Shipwreck Coast: Port Campbell -- Tower Hill's peculiar attractions: Warrnambool -- Ancestors and apparitions: Port Fairy -- Ghosts and robbers at rest: Port Fairy -- Enough to try a saint: Portland -- Sleeping on the altar: Portland -- Reviving a favourite place: Blackwood -- A room fit for a prince: Ballarat -- The countess and the convent: Ballarat -- Silence after the fury and roar: Ballarat -- Death in the Dowling Forest: Ballarat -- A short walk to Tipperary: Daylesford -- A grim past: Ararat -- A subtle survivor: Melbourne -- Romance and rivalry: Sunbury -- The ladies of Buda: Castlemaine -- Life in the tin-pan gullies: Castlemaine -- Ghosts of a noisy past: Maldon -- Temple at the big gold mountain: Bendigo -- At Rainbow's end: Rainbow -- Salt lake country in the pink: Ouyen -- Migrants' outback anguish: Red Cliffs -- Watering the wasteland: Mildura -- |
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The romance of the old: Mildura -- Home of the Holloway aunts: Swan Hill -- Forest of legends: Echuca -- Melba's sentimental journey: Lilydale -- Animal farm at Gulf Station: Yarra Glen -- Growing up at the Granton: Toolangi -- The lost world of Donna Buang: Warburton -- A tree for posterity: Powelltown -- The scars of Black Friday: Noojee -- Dredging up the past: Wangaratta -- Murder at the Wonnangatta Station: Heyfield -- Marriages, moths and monoliths: Mount Buffalo -- Wallace's Hut: Falls Creek -- The life of Riley: Corryong -- Horatio's hidden valley: Belgrave -- The love of their lives: Baxter -- Calling on Napoleon: Mount Martha -- Culture and corned beef: McCrae -- A walk on the wild side: Somers -- Windswept beaches and historic guns: Portsea -- The first farm in Victoria: Churchill Island -- Shafts of the past: Wonthaggi -- Taking our the limestone: Walkerville -- Tarraville's treasure: Port Albert -- Love affair with a valley: Yarram -- Pride of the bush post office: Walhalla -- Sound to the water's edge: Stratford -- The lock-up at Livingstone Creek: Omeo -- Lovely Lake Tyers: Lakes Entrance |
| Summary |
“A bushranger, a lovely European countess, a 'wild white man' who lived with the aborigines, a couple of ghosts, two shipwrecked survivors, a few hanged men, a feisty female bullocky, a clutch of wealthy squatters, several murder victims, Dame Nellie Melba and a saint are just some of the people you'll encounter when you Discover Historic Victoria. With Mary Ryllis Clark, explore the old cemeteries and homesteads of the Shipwreck Coast; relive the triumphs and tribulations of life on the goldfields; and enter the lost worlds of a lovelorn hermit, a small sawmilling community, and an aspiring social hostess in a bluestone mansion.”--Back cover |
| Notes |
Articles previously published in the Melbourne Age |
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Includes indexes |
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Subtitle on cover: 60 heritage places to visit |
| Subject |
Historic buildings -- Australia -- Victoria -- Guidebooks.
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Historic sites -- Australia -- Victoria -- Guidebooks.
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| SUBJECT |
Victoria http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79046608 -- Guidebooks.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001297
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| Genre/Form |
Guidebooks.
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| LC no. |
97149598 |
| ISBN |
0670869287 |
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9780670869282 |
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