Great Australian historic hotels
Stone, Barry, 1960-2010
Book
In this book each hotel provides its own tantalising insight into the development of our nation as seen from its windows, porches and balconies. From the tragic immigration tales of Q Station to the mining of oil shale by the Glen Davis Hotel in NSW's Capertee Valley; from the political skulduggery at the Hyatt Hotel Canberra to the viticulture of Padthaway Homestead; from the expansion of the Swan River Colony near Faversham House to the Victorian Gold Rush alongside Freeman on Ford. These hotels have seen it all, and they have rather a lot to say in the most salubrious of settings. We journey to every state in the nation, sometimes to the hotels we all know or think we know - like the Windsor in Melbourne - but most often to places we've never heard of. Places like North Bundaleer and Foxhunters Return, Poltalloch Station and Schouten House, hotels selected not for their glitz factor or their star ratings necessarily, but for their ability to tell a story. Their story and ours.
Main title:
Great Australian historic hotels / Barry Stone.
Author:
Imprint:
Crows Nest, N.S.W. : Allen & Unwin, 2010.
Collation:
255 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Shelving notes:
20995 1 22-11-2011 0 nyctro 23-11-2011 7
ISBN:
97817423740869781742374086 (pbk)
Dewey class:
728.50994647.940994728.5728.5
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
118115
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Melbourne Library | Local History Non Fiction | LH 728.5 STON | Located in the Open collection (Set: 19 Sep 2023) |
| North Melbourne Library | Local History Reference | LH REF 728.5 STON | Not for loan (Set: 04 Jul 2017) |