Lake Grace 100 years: A Community Memoir edited by Stephanie Clarke-Lloyd and Michelle Slarke

Book Description

Secondhand. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges. Spine has been reinforced with book tape. Interior binding has been strengthened. Previous owner has signed and inscribed inside page. Otherwise a very good copy.

No one knows a place like who lives there. From the words of early settlers to those of a 21st-century child, Lake Grace 100 Years: A community MemoIr celebrates the life of a West Australian rural community. Like Grace, this is a book full of heart, humour and hope. A beautiful book to enjoy and come back to. (back cover)

The hand-drawn maps of West Australian history record the exploration by European Australians into the south-east; the tracks of surveyor John Septimus Roe in 1848 and John Holland in 1893. The large lake east of Dumbleyung would become a reference point in future explorations and for sandalwood collectors who travelled through the district from the late 1870s. Lake Grace mostly likely named after Grace Drake-Brockman is recorded in the ink and watercolour maps of 1906 and 1909 and mentioned in newspapers of those years. (Page 4)