Collection: Reference

Traces the history of the blue Mountains Aboriginal tribes, the Gundungurra and the Dharug.

From the slope of the Blue Mountains at Lapstone to Mt York and Mt Victoria. The Grose River to Kings Tableland, Mount Solitary and Narrow Neck Plateau and part of the Blue Labyrinth. All geographical features and main named walking tracks.

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

From the Aboriginal beginnings, early exploration and the building of such wonders as the Giant Stairway and the Scenic Railway, the famous buildings, writers and artists, including Bradman at Blackheath, the Chinese people and the pioneers. This book covers the history of all the towns over the ...

Probably the most difficult railways constructed in NSW was those, both government and private, on the Blue Mountains. Steam haulage for coal waggons began in 1815 and for passenger trains in 1830.