{"product_id":"2026200015018-secondhand-old-walhalla-portrait-of-a-gold-town","title":"Old Walhalla: Portrait Of A Gold Town","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: No dust jacket\u003cbr\u003ePages: Yellowed\u003cbr\u003eMarkings: Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and corners\u003cbr\u003eCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNestled 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.\n\nPaull 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?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49203185942747,"sku":"2026200015018-SECONDHAND","price":12.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/a43ec599-e6a5-42fa-b9c1-7316b1bf9c4f.png?v=1788145185","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200015018-secondhand-old-walhalla-portrait-of-a-gold-town","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}