Read Once upon a Hume : the traveller's companion - Volume 1

Once upon a Hume : the traveller's companion - Volume 1

Stephen Gard

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Description:Take a trip down the Hume Highway- but not as you know it.“Once Upon A Hume. takes the reader on a journey down the Great South Road, as the Hume Highway was once known,” Stephen Gard said. “But instead of going from town to town, we travel personality by personality, meeting some of the intriguing folk who lived near, or preyed upon, or prospered by, the Great South Road, in its earlier days.’” Few of the people described within the pages are well-known. But all have a story to share. Readers will visit:Hugh McCrae, eccentric poet-laureate of Elderslie.The monstrous Razorback, a menace to travellers and to early settlement itself.Carl Rümker, Picton’s half-mad star-gazing genius.Emily, the Spectre of Picton’s Redbank Tunnel.Mary Lupton of Bargo, who escaped hanging to become heir to most of Sydney’s Millers Point.Sophie Corrie, Yerrinbool’s Canned Fruit Queen, who made her life story a work of fiction.George Cutter, the knife-wielding publican of Mittagong.“Anecdotal, informative, chatty, and quite factual, it peoples the Hume Highway landscape with vivid characters and occurrences, profiles prominences, explains place names, and makes an absorbing panorama of the passing show. Take a copy along on your next Hume journey.”This is the first of several planned volumes telling tales of the colourful personalities who dwelt Once Upon A Hume.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Once upon a Hume : the traveller's companion - Volume 1. To get started finding Once upon a Hume : the traveller's companion - Volume 1, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 220

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: BlueDawe Books

Release: 2017

ISBN: 0992475112

Description: Take a trip down the Hume Highway- but not as you know it.“Once Upon A Hume. takes the reader on a journey down the Great South Road, as the Hume Highway was once known,” Stephen Gard said. “But instead of going from town to town, we travel personality by personality, meeting some of the intriguing folk who lived near, or preyed upon, or prospered by, the Great South Road, in its earlier days.’” Few of the people described within the pages are well-known. But all have a story to share. Readers will visit:Hugh McCrae, eccentric poet-laureate of Elderslie.The monstrous Razorback, a menace to travellers and to early settlement itself.Carl Rümker, Picton’s half-mad star-gazing genius.Emily, the Spectre of Picton’s Redbank Tunnel.Mary Lupton of Bargo, who escaped hanging to become heir to most of Sydney’s Millers Point.Sophie Corrie, Yerrinbool’s Canned Fruit Queen, who made her life story a work of fiction.George Cutter, the knife-wielding publican of Mittagong.“Anecdotal, informative, chatty, and quite factual, it peoples the Hume Highway landscape with vivid characters and occurrences, profiles prominences, explains place names, and makes an absorbing panorama of the passing show. Take a copy along on your next Hume journey.”This is the first of several planned volumes telling tales of the colourful personalities who dwelt Once Upon A Hume.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Once upon a Hume : the traveller's companion - Volume 1. To get started finding Once upon a Hume : the traveller's companion - Volume 1, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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