Blue Mountains journeys
Goodlet, Ken2013
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The Blue Mountains is & always has been a place of journeying. As well as the tale of the wayfinders' traverse of the Blue Mountains barrier two centuries ago, this book includes accounts of many earlier & later mountains journeys, up to the present time
Main title:
Blue Mountains journeys / by Ken Goodlet.
Author:
Imprint:
Hazelbrook, N.S.W. : Ken Goodlet, 2013.
Collation:
229 pages : some colour illustrations, maps, portraits, photographs (some colour), facsimiles ; 31 cm.
Contents:
Custodians - Darug & Gundungurra people's identity & journeys -- 'God raised me a friend' - Matthew Everingham tells his supporter of his journey -- Wayfinder - Gregory Blaxland -- Settler - Elizabeth Hawkins & 'the dawn of independence' -- Finders of a northern way - Archibald Bell the explorer, & Robert Hoddle & William Govett the surveyors -- A religious visit - James Backhouse -- The pleasure of investigation - Charles Darwin -- Informed observer - Louisa Anne Meredith -- 1840s road experiences - Sophia Stranger, Godfrey Mundy & Peter Green -- Fortune-seekers - Edward Hargraves, gold-prospectors & bushrangers -- Broken wheel and bullock skeleton - Observations while travelling by coach -- The goliath that conquered the mountains - ... And those who made railways happen -- The blow of steam and the hiss of Westinghouse - Steam passenger & goods train adventurers -- Ameliorating the ills of urban existence - Pioneer conservationists & bushwalkers -- It was luxury! - Railway tourism in 1888 -- Motorists, marchers and cyclists - ... On the mountain highway early last century -- Clubs on wheels - The joys, challenges & camaraderie of 20th century rail journeys -- Bushwalking just for the love of it - Three women's experiences of the mountains bush -- Journeys on the developing mountains highway -- A place of one's own - Lynette Stanger and her ancestors' journeys home -- In the scars, great stories - Recent expeditions into the wilderness
ISBN:
9780646595221
Dewey class:
994.45
Language:
English
BRN:
77199
More Information:
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Penrith | Reference | 994.45 BLU | Not for loan (Set: 10 Feb 2016) |
| St Marys | Reference | 994.45 BLU | Not for loan (Set: 10 Feb 2016) |