Melbourne: John Batman's Village by Agnes Paton Bell

Book Description

Secondhand. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges. Pages have sunned. Dust jacket has scratches and a hole to front cover. Dust jacket is now enclosed in a glossy protective dust jacket cover.

A history of Melbourne, tracing its development from the riverside village founded by John Batman to the metropolis of the 1960s, includes descriptions of Aboriginal corroborees and other early encounters with the area's Aboriginal inhabitants.

Since its foundation 130 years ago, Melbourne has been the scene of one of the most dramatic and impressive stories of growth and achievement of any city in the world. The development of the riverside village that John Batman helped found in 1835 into the present-day metropolis of over 2 million people has also been an intensely human affair.

Includes a Foreword by General Sir Dallas Brooks.