Collection: Local Book

Re-enactment commemorating the first successful crossing of the Blue Mountains by Blaxland, Lawson and Wentworth in 1813. Re-enactment and celebrations was part of the Commonwealth Jubilee.

Sets out in full the type of development which is acceptable with respect to the preservation of the visual, topographic, vegetative and cultural features which make the Escarpment unique.

Local place names can be fascinating and sometimes surprising. Like small doorways opening onto long forgotten memories and stories, they can embrace our experience of the places in which we live.

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