High Country Huts and Homesteads: A Celebration of Australia's Historic Mountain Shelters
- ISBN-10
- 1925868796
- ISBN-13
- 9781925868791
- Pages
- 256
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2021-10
- Author
- Craig Lewis and Cathy Savage
Description
Lavishly illustrated with beautiful full-colour photographs, High Country Huts is a nostalgic collection of abandoned mountain homesteads, shearers huts, travellers shelters and many other lonely structures. The text portrays a short history of each hut along with many fascinating accompanying stories!
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- 2016-10-05
- 256 pages
- Paperback
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