The Road to Batemans Bay: Speculating on the South Coast During the 1840s Depression

by Alastair Greig

The Road to Batemans Bay is the story of competing ventures to create 'the Great Southern Township' on the South Coast of New South Wales in the early 1840s. The idea of developing the furthest reaches of settlement was linked to the hopes of southern woolgrowers for a road from their properties to the coast, over the Great Dividing Range. The township proponents dreamed that having a quicker and cheaper connection to Sydney would allow them to...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1760466050
• ISBN13: 9781760466053
• Release Date: November 2023
• Publisher: Anu Press
• Length: 250 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"