The Vanished Land. Disappearing Dynasties Of Victoria's Western District

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Good
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Wakefield Press
Publisher Place: Australia
Publisher Year: 2017
Edition: First Edition

Description: 328 pages. Book is in general good condition. There is some light reading wear present, but still a presentable copy.

Publishers Description: The Vanished Land is the Western District of Victoria stripped of its identity, its social elite of grazing dynasties departed for their own reasons. The melancholic exodus has increased recently as the myriad pressures of holding inherited land have become intolerable in a nation never intimidated by ditching its past. This historic plain of fecundity demands an investigation of its ending as the home of a ruling class that for 150 years bestrode an Australia riding on the sheeps back. "The Vanished Land" is a human tale of leaving, of a disconnect with the land, of submerged anguish and inhibited grief, a private story of loss told for the first time by an outsider with insider connection.

ISBN: 9781743055014