Australiana
Castlemaine From Camp to City
A Pictorial History of Forest Creek & the Mount Alexander Goldfields
240 pp, paperback & hardback [New Chum Press 2008]
This superbly illustrated, expanded second edition of Castlemaine – From Camp to City has more than 200 original photographs, historical illustrations, paintings, engravings and items of ephemera. Together they tell the story of the rush to Castlemaine, and of the early Colony of Victoria's formative years in the days when 'gold was king'.
'Castlemaine – From Camp to City is presented in a narrative style that makes this kind of history a joy to read'.