Were, Ned Kelly, Marcus Clarke, Anthony Trollope and Rudyard Kipling contribute to this biography of our most surprising city. Among many others, John Pascoe Fawkner, Georgiana McCrae, J. The Birth of Melbourneincludes voices that range from tribal elders to Chinese immigrants, from governors to criminals. And yet, as Tim Flannery writes, the price paid was environmental ruin and the tragic loss of societies that had flourished on Port Phillip Bay for millennia. With the discovery of gold, the city was transformed almost overnight into 'marvellous Melbourne'. It was a temperate Kakadu, teeming with wildlife and with soils rich enough to spawn pastoral empires. In 1835 John Batman sailed up the Yarra and was astonished by the beauty of the land. The Birth of Melbourneis a spectacular anthology of contemporary writings giving a vivid insight into the history of Melbourne.
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