Old Walhalla: Portrait Of A Gold Town
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.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and corners
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Nestled deep in the rugged mountain gullies of Victoria's Gippsland region, Walhalla once roared with the thunder of stamper batteries and the ambitions of a thousand gold-hungry men — and Raymond Paull's Old Walhalla: Portrait of a Gold Town resurrects this extraordinary lost world with vivid historical precision. The book chronicles the remarkable rise and eventual decline of one of Australia's richest and most remote gold-mining towns, tracing the arc of a community that at its zenith boasted its own railway, newspaper, and a tightly packed township clinging to near-vertical valley walls, all sustained by the legendary Long Tunnel Mine. Paull presents a richly textured social and economic history, capturing not only the mechanics of gold extraction but the human drama of the miners, merchants, and families who carved a civilisation out of the wilderness. Written with a warm, authoritative voice grounded in meticulous archival research, the work stands as an essential document of Australian colonial history and the fleeting, fever-bright culture of the goldfields era. For anyone captivated by the boom-and-bust rhythms of frontier life, Old Walhalla poses a haunting question: what remains of a town built entirely on a dream that ran out?
Author: Raymond Paull
Format: Paperback
Genre: Australian history
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and corners
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Nestled deep in the rugged mountain gullies of Victoria's Gippsland region, Walhalla once roared with the thunder of stamper batteries and the ambitions of a thousand gold-hungry men — and Raymond Paull's Old Walhalla: Portrait of a Gold Town resurrects this extraordinary lost world with vivid historical precision. The book chronicles the remarkable rise and eventual decline of one of Australia's richest and most remote gold-mining towns, tracing the arc of a community that at its zenith boasted its own railway, newspaper, and a tightly packed township clinging to near-vertical valley walls, all sustained by the legendary Long Tunnel Mine. Paull presents a richly textured social and economic history, capturing not only the mechanics of gold extraction but the human drama of the miners, merchants, and families who carved a civilisation out of the wilderness. Written with a warm, authoritative voice grounded in meticulous archival research, the work stands as an essential document of Australian colonial history and the fleeting, fever-bright culture of the goldfields era. For anyone captivated by the boom-and-bust rhythms of frontier life, Old Walhalla poses a haunting question: what remains of a town built entirely on a dream that ran out?