On Mount Emu Creek: The Story Of A Nineteenth-Century Victorian Sheep Station (SIGNED)
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Edition: 2nd ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: Signed
In the vast pastoral landscapes of nineteenth-century Victoria, one family's story becomes a vivid chronicle of colonial life, ambition, and survival — On Mount Emu Creek is a richly detailed account of a working sheep station that shaped a dynasty and a region. Mary Turner Shaw draws on personal memory and meticulous research to present the daily rhythms, triumphs, and hardships of life on the land, from the sweeping wool runs to the intimate dramas of family and community that unfolded against a backdrop of an Australia still finding its identity. The narrative introduces Thomas Shaw and those bound to Mount Emu Creek, painting a portrait of pioneers who wrestled with drought, distance, and the unrelenting demands of the pastoral industry in an era of profound transformation. Beyond its biographical intimacy, this work stands as a significant contribution to Australian social and agricultural history, illuminating the broader forces — economic booms, labour struggles, and the evolving relationship between settler and land — that defined colonial Victoria. Shaw's prose carries the warmth of a family memoir alongside the authority of a carefully documented historical record, making it as much a love letter to a place as it is a testament to an era. For anyone drawn to the rich, often untold stories of Australia's pastoral heritage, this account of Mount Emu Creek leaves an indelible impression — and raises the question of what, ultimately, is lost when such stations and the worlds they sustained fade into history.
Author: Mary Turner Shaw
Format: Hardback
Published: 1970, Robertson and Mullens
Genre: Australian history
Edition: 2nd ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: Signed
In the vast pastoral landscapes of nineteenth-century Victoria, one family's story becomes a vivid chronicle of colonial life, ambition, and survival — On Mount Emu Creek is a richly detailed account of a working sheep station that shaped a dynasty and a region. Mary Turner Shaw draws on personal memory and meticulous research to present the daily rhythms, triumphs, and hardships of life on the land, from the sweeping wool runs to the intimate dramas of family and community that unfolded against a backdrop of an Australia still finding its identity. The narrative introduces Thomas Shaw and those bound to Mount Emu Creek, painting a portrait of pioneers who wrestled with drought, distance, and the unrelenting demands of the pastoral industry in an era of profound transformation. Beyond its biographical intimacy, this work stands as a significant contribution to Australian social and agricultural history, illuminating the broader forces — economic booms, labour struggles, and the evolving relationship between settler and land — that defined colonial Victoria. Shaw's prose carries the warmth of a family memoir alongside the authority of a carefully documented historical record, making it as much a love letter to a place as it is a testament to an era. For anyone drawn to the rich, often untold stories of Australia's pastoral heritage, this account of Mount Emu Creek leaves an indelible impression — and raises the question of what, ultimately, is lost when such stations and the worlds they sustained fade into history.