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General pictorial history of the villages of the Blue Mountains of NSW
In Blue Mountains Best Bushwalks, Veechi Stuart, local author and resident of 20 years, combines her professional writing skills with her passion for bushwalking. In her choice of the best bushwalks, she includes not only the classic walks listed in many guidebooks, but also the quieter tracks that few know exist, as well as some of the more historic walks that are in danger of being forgotten. Local nature photographer Scott Townsend complements these detailed descriptions with over 100 full-colour photos. Blue Mountains Best Bushwalks includes 24 short walks, 20 half- day walks, 5 full-day walks, 35 walk variations and an overnight walk to the historic Blue Gum forest. If you love to get out and about then this is a book for you, regardless of your fitness level or bushwalking experience.
SACRED WATERS is the account of the dispossession of Indigenous people in the Blue Mountains within living memory, and is one of the winners of the 2008 NSW Premier's History Awards. The Gully, situated in the middle of Katoomba, was used as a summer holiday camp by the Gundungurra and Darug peoples before white settlement. After white settlement many moved to the Gully permanently and in the 1950s when Gundungurra land was flooded for the creation of Warragamba Dam, this process became irreversible. The Gully residents lived in relative harmony with their white neighbours until 1957 when some local businessmen decided to build a car racing track there and the Gully people homes were simply ...
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