Port Jackson: Today and Yesterday by Colin and Margaret Kerr

Book Description

Secondhand. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges. Dust jacket has light creasing at edges and spine. Interior and binding are still very good.

Port Jackson: Today and Yesterday documents Port Jackson, Sydney, as it transformed from a pristine natural landscape into a bustling modern metropolis.

It traces the waterway's history from its charting by European explorers to its growth into Sydney's economic and cultural heart by 1980.

Contains historical illustrations, archival photographs, and detailed cartography printed on the book's lining papers.

Chapters include:

• Harbour cruise
• Historical Shore
• Upper Harbour
• Sydney Cove
• Growth of a port
• Darling Harbour
• Botany Bay

and others.

63-page hardcover volume, published in 1980 by Rigby as part of their popular Pageant of Australia series.