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The Victorians. Settling. Softcover
Publisher: Fairfax, Syme & Weldon Assocs, Sydney 1984, 1984
24.0 x 17.0cms, 378pp, b/w illusts, very good paperback This history of Victoria, the Australian state, has 3 sections: from husbandry to plunder (hunters & gatherers; squatters; diggers; selectors); learning to adapt (wool, gold, an agricultural revolution, people of the bush, the urban giant); doubts & new directions (the end of a dram, an urban-industrial economy, the proserous years, conserving Victoria