The Vanished Land: Disappearing Dynasties of Victoria's Western District by Richard Zachariah

Book Description

Secondhand. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. This a complete copy. Some are printed without pages 104-113.

The Vanished Land is the Western District of Victoria stripped of its identity; its social elite of grazing dynasties departed for their own reasons. The melancholic exodus has increased recently as the myriad pressures of holding inherited land have become intolerable in a nation never intimidated by ditching its past.

This historic plain of fecundity demands an investigation of its ending as the home of a ruling class that for 150 years bestrode an Australia riding on the sheep's back.

The Vanished Land is a human tale of leaving, of a disconnect with the land, of submerged anguish and inhibited grief, a private story of loss told for the first time by an outsider with an insider connection. (back cover)