Author : Rolf Boldrewood
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781330522479
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (224 download)
Book Synopsis A Romance of Canvas Town, and Other Stories (Classic Reprint) by : Rolf Boldrewood
Download or read book A Romance of Canvas Town, and Other Stories (Classic Reprint) written by Rolf Boldrewood and published by . This book was released on 2015-06-30 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Romance of Canvas Town, and Other Stories Dwellers in Melbourne during 1851 and the immediately succeeding years of the golden age in Australia will remember Canvas Town. Good cause, doubtless, have certain prosperous citizens to recall the strange suburb of Melbourne across the river, in which they, with hundreds of strangers and pilgrims, were fain to abide, pending suitable lodgings or employment. It arose mushroom-like from the bare trampled clay, a town of tents and calico, at no great distance from Prince's-bridge, shouldering the road which then led to the fashionable suburb of South Yarra. Its raison d'etre was briefly this. When tidings of the wondrous yields of Ballarat and Forest Creek - of gold dust and ingots, so profuse, so easily won - reached Europe, fleets of vessels bearing armies of adventurers set sail for Eldorado. When the flotilla anchored in Hobson's Bay, disembarking in crowds, the young and the old, the rich and the poor, the delicately nurtured with the rudely reared, there was simply no place to put them, nowhere for them to go. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."
