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The Birth of MelbourneTim FlanneryIn 1835 John Batman sailed up the Yarra and was astonished by the beauty of the land. It was a temperate Kakadu, teeming with wildlife and with soils rich enough to spawn pastoral empires. With the discovery of gold, the city was transformed almost overnight into ‘Marvellous Melbourne’. In his brilliant introduction to this new anthology, Tim Flannery writes that the price paid was environmental ruin and the tragic loss of societies which had flourished on Port Phillip Bay for millennia. Award-winning author Flannery has brought together a fascinating, quirky collection of contemporary stories describing the beginnings of Melbourne. From the notorious champagne lunches of the 1840s to the opium dens, society balls and theatre of the 1880s, from the first football matches to the glamour of the Cup, The Birth of Melbourne is a vivid portrait of a changing environment made by the people who lived through these extraordinary times. Click here to buy this book online.
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