Gold Off To The Diggings by Geoff Hocking
$39.99 AUD
Category: Ballarat History
Through Hocking's easy to read narrative style, we learn of the rollicking days on the goldfields - from California to Australia. Each chapter tells a different story - bushrangers on the diffings, hordes of Chinese also seeking riches under the Southern Cross, to the women of the goldfields including t ...Show more
George Higinbotham and Eureka (PB) by Geraldine Moore
$44.00 AUD
Category: Ballarat History
George Higinbotham was a highly influential politician in colonial Victoria. One of his contemporaries described him as a man of 'dash and daring' who 'won from privilege and class ground that they have never since been able to recover.' Even today debate rages about his character and his legacy. Some s ...Show more
Redheap by Andrew Bell (Compiled by)
$29.95 AUD
Category: Ballarat History
This is a guide to the Creswick of Norman Lindsay's novel Redheap. It includes 20 picture cards showing us the town as it appeared in 1896 through the eyes of Lindsay's protagonist Robert Piper. Through extracts from the novel, we follow in Robert's footsteps as he walks the town's streets in search of ...Show more
Ten Delightful Tales: Bicycles in Ballarat - Large Print Edition by Doug Bradby
$15.00 AUD
Category: Ballarat History
The Astonishing History of Ballarat. Volume 2. 1856-1883 by Doug Bradby; Carson Ellis (Illustrator)
$19.99 AUD
Category: Ballarat History
'It was the men who first went below the blue rock who made the reputation of Ballarat.''We have shallow sinking, deep sinking, ground sluicing and quartz mining, and we had to learn everything. All this has been taught us by the pick and shovel of the miner. There have been none to help us, and the kno ...Show more
The Astonishing History of Ballarat. Volume 4. 1879-1959 - How the Quartz Miners Prolonged Mining in Ballarat by Doug Bradby; Carson Ellis (Illustrator)
$19.99 AUD
Category: Ballarat History
The Astonishing History of Ballarat, Volume 4, reveals the crucial role played by quartz mining in Ballarat from 1879 until today. Quartz mining only produced about 16% of all gold found in Ballarat, but it saved Ballarat when the alluvial gold petered out in the mid 1870s.
The Ghosts Have Never Left - Victorian Gold Rush Towns and the Stories They Could Tell(HB) by John Watt; Marie Watt
$54.99 AUD
Category: Ballarat History
In words and images this book seeks to capture both the glory days and haunting reminders of 21 Victorian Gold Rush towns, that today are either small, sleepy or non-existent. The authors have also identified slices of important, and often little known, history associated with each of the 21 towns. Topi ...Show more
The Accidental Town: Castlemaine, 1851–1861 by Marjorie Theobald
$39.95 AUD
Category: Ballarat History
Castlemaine owes its existence to the alluvial gold rushes which began in 1851. To cope with the crisis, Governor La Trobe established four Gold Commissioners' Camps - at Castlemaine, Bendigo, Ballarat and Beechworth. While many centres of mining dwindled to names on the map, these administrative centre ...Show more