Between River and Sea: A History of Mosman Park, Western Australia: An Update and Extension of the Original Work by H S G Downey by Elizabeth Tuetteman

Book Description

Secondhand. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Dust jacket has wear to top and tail edges, particularly tail back cover. Dust jacket is now enclosed in protective cover. Interior and binding are still excellent.

Mosman Park is a far cry from the sparsely settled rural community of the mid and late 1880s. The European farmers who had brought their farming equipment and domestic animals found the task of settling daunting. Beautiful as the country was, there were densely wooded hills and wildflowers in profusion. It presented a tough challenge.

Indigenous People, on the other hand, had long found it a region of plenty, seasonally hunting kangaroos, harvesting food and fishing in abundant waters. By the turn of the 20th Century, most of the Indigenous people had gone, and workers' huts were clustered about the railway linking Fremantle and Perth.

The district had become and was destined to remain for several decades, a closely knit working-class community. For many years, this population was augmented each summer by country visitors, day trippers and campers who enjoyed the bayside resort atmosphere.

Times have changed. On the cliffs overlooking the Swan River, shoreside mansions predominate on once unsaleable land because it was too far from made roads and milk deliveries. (book flap)