Of Pioneers and Perservance
Colourful Characters of The Victorian High Country.
Of Pioneers & Perseverance is the fifth in a series of six books exploring the fascinating lives of many of the colourful characters who have once called the Victorian High Country "home."
Their stories are told mostly through the recollections and writings of the older mountain people who knew knew of, the various characters in one way or another.
This material has been collected and the interviews recorded over a period of nearly 30 years. Hairy-Chested History tells the stories of the snow-country pioneers of the Hotham and Harrietville area, From Fraser's to Freezeout explores the pioneers of the Dargo High Plains, From Drover's to Daisy-Pickers focuses on the colourful characters of the Bogong High Plains, and Weatherbeaten Wisdom draws on characters from all over the rest of the high country. This fifth book concentrates on a whole range of mountain pioneers whose stories all have one thing in common - they each demonstrate a remarkable and often almost unbelievable capacity for endless, dogged perseverance.
306 pages hard cover
250mm x 185mm x 27mm