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Author Hamon, B. V., author.

Title They came to Murramarang : a history of Murramarang, Kioloa and Bawley Point / Bruce Hamon ; edited by Alastair Greig, Sue Feary
Edition Revised edition
Published Acton, A.C.T. : ANU Press, 2015

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Description 1 online resource
Contents 1. Pre-settlement -- 2. Settlement at Murramarang -- 3. The Evans era -- 4. Timber! -- 5. Turn of the century -- 6. Transport: ships and roads -- 7. Bawley Point in the 1920s -- 8. The 1920s and 1930s -- 9. Recent developments -- Epilogue: Murramarang in the early twenty-first century
Summary Bruce Hamon's They Came to Murramarang, first published in 1994, provides a unique combination of local history and personal recollections from a writer who witnessed the transformation of the Murramarang region from the timber era to modern times. This new edition retains the original character of Bruce's engaging prose with additional chapters relating to Bruce's life, the writing of the book, the Indigenous history of the region and the transformation of the area since the book was written. The book has also been enhanced by the insertion of additional photographs
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject HISTORY -- Australia & New Zealand.
SUBJECT Murramarang (N.S.W.) -- History
Kioloa (N.S.W.) -- History
Bawley Point (N.S.W.) -- History
Subject New South Wales -- Kioloa
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Greig, Alastair, 1960- editor.
Feary, Sue, editor
LC no. 2015513980
ISBN 9781925022759
1925022757
9781925022742
1925022749