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From the beginning the beautiful promontory of Queenscliff played a unique role in colonial history. Its local legend of William Buckley, 'the wild white man', who lived with the Wathaurong people for 32 years, is a seminal story of first contact between Aborigines and Europeans. White settlement in Queenscliff was essential to the navigation of the treacherous heads of Port Phillip Bay. In 1838 the first pilots operated in whale boats from Queenscliff, and by the time gold was discovered in the 1850s they were joined by a Health Officer and Customs Officer. By 1863 this maritime settlement was proudly respectable municipality, and soon afterwards a resort declared to be 'the Queen of the Watering Places', to which large steam ferries transported hundreds of people to the town's grand hotels. As a seaside resort Queenscliff was the compliment to the 'Marvellous Melbourne' of the booming 1880s. It also boasted of Fort Queenscliff as a key to colonial defences. And it had a vigorous fishing community that were the ballast of the town.
This first official history vividly weaves these threads. It breaks new ground on William Buckley as a go-between; Queenscliff's 'aristocracies' of pilots, lifeboat men and First World War soldiers; the rise and fall of the fishing industry; and the untold troubles of early Fort Queenscliff. Most of all it essays—with Barry Hill's touch as a poet—upon the resonance of Queenscliff as a place. It concludes with a challenging account of how the community of Queenscliff successfully campaigned in 1993 to remain an autonomous municipality, a political state of affairs that makes its historical identity a living issue.
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Barry Hill is a historian, poet, and fiction writer. He is the author of Broken Song: TGH Strehlow and Aboriginal Possession, which won the Westfield/Waverley Library Award for literature.
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The Enduring Rip - A History of Queenscliffe
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Melbourne University Press, Australia, 2004
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The Enduring Rip: A History of Queenscliffe [Queenscliff]
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Melbourne University Press, Carlton, 2004
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Uncommon history of Queenscliffe (or Queenscliff), located in Port Phillip Bay, Victoria. Numerous b&w photographs and illustrations throughout, including fascinating vintage shots. With map at front. Includes appendix, notes, list of illustrations, bibliography, plus index. From inner front flap of dustjacket: "From the beginning the beautiful promontory of Queenscliff played a unique role in colonial history. Its local legend of William Buckley, 'the wild white man', who lived with the Wathaurong people for 32 years, is a seminal story of the first contact between Aborigines and Europeans. White settlement in Queenscliff was essential to the navigation of the treacherous heads of Port Phillip Bay. In 1838 the first pilots operated in whale boats from Queenscliff, and by the time gold was discovered in the 1850s they were joined by a Health Officer and Customs Officer. By 1863 this maritime settlement was a proudly respectable municipality, and soon afterwards a resort declared to be 'the Queen of the Watering Places', to which large steam ferries transported hundreds of people to the town's grand hotels. As a seaside resort Queenscliff was the complement to the 'Marvelous Melbourne' of the booming 1880s. This first official history vividly weaves these threads. It concludes with a challenging account of how the community of Queenscliff successfully campaigned in 1993 to remain an autonomous municipality, a political state of affairs that makes its historical identity a living issue". Rear inner flap of dustjacket notes that Australian author Barry Hill has lived in Queenscliff since 1975. Publisher's description (from Trove): "This richly illustrated history of the borough of Queenscliffe, Australia, weaves a compelling narrative of the elegant 19th-century resort and seaside town whose civilized veneer covered dark, desperate stories of escaped convicts, colonization, and maritime ingenuity and disaster". Note: ISBN on copyright page is 0522851193, wheras on rear panel of dustjacket is 0522851614 (which Trove lists as the hardcover edition). Printed in Australia. Bound in original black cloth, bright gilt lettering to spine, brown endpapers, in publisher's unclipped pictorial dustjacket. A very nice clean tight solid hardcover copy. 302pp. Heavy large book, extra shipping may be required. Uncommon title. RARE. SB-42. Seller Inventory # 033004
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