Great Australian Historic Hotels - Softcover

Stone, Barry

 
9781742374086: Great Australian Historic Hotels
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1742374085 ISBN 13: 9781742374086
Publisher: Allen & Unwin, 2010

Synopsis



On Christmas Eve in 1882, an impromptu game of cricket was organized between the touring English Cricket team and a local side in the grounds of Rupertswood, a 50-room Italianate mansion in Sunbury, 30 minutes drive north of Melbourne. At dinner that night Rupertswood's owner, Lady Janet Clark, marked the visitor's victory by presenting the English captain, Ivo Bligh, with a tiny urn that contained the charred remains of a set of bails. Thus the legend of the Ashes, Australia's sporting Holy Grail, was born. In Great Australian Historic Hotels, each hotel provides its own tantalizing insight into the development of our nation as seen from its windows, porches, and balconies. From the tragic immigration tales of Q Station to the mining of oil shale by the Glen Davis Hotel in NSW's Capertee Valley; from the political skulduggery at the Hyatt Hotel Canberra to the viticulture of Padthaway Homestead; from the expansion of the Swan River Colony near Faversham House to the Victorian Gold Rush alongside Freeman on Ford. These hotels have seen it all, and they have rather a lot to say in the most salubrious of settings. We journey to every state in the nation, sometimes to the hotels we all know or think we know—like the Windsor in Melbourne—but most often to places we've never heard of. Places like North Bundaleer and Foxhunters Return, Poltalloch Station, and Schouten House, hotels selected not for their glitz factor or their star ratings necessarily, but for their ability to tell a story. Their story and a story of all of Australia, too.

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About the Author


Barry Stone began his writing career as a freelance travel writer in 1997 and has since written for some of Australasia's leading travel magazines.

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Publisher
Allen & Unwin
Publication date
2010
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1742374085
ISBN 13 
9781742374086
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
256