More Great Properties of Country Victoria The Western District's Golden Age

More Great Properties of Country Victoria The Western District's Golden Age by Kimball Baker, published by Melbourne University Publishing in 2017.

English novelist Anthony Trollope described the Western District squatters in the 1870s as 'plentiful, proud, prejudiced, given to hospitality, impatient of contradiction ... thoughtful on the future, and above all, conscious--perhaps a little too conscious--of their own importance ... forty thousand sheep cannot be shorn without a piano; twenty thousand is the lowest number that renders napkins at dinner imperative'. But these squatters were also speculators and investors, whose entrepreneuship built great wealth and elaborate mansions.

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• Author: Kimball Baker
• Publisher: Melbourne University Publishing
• Year: 2017
• Pages: 211
• ISBN: 9780522872392