Kingsclear Books
Kingclear Books is a small but diverse Sydney based publisher. Our catalogue covers a wide spectrum from photographic histories of Sydney suburbs to health books, crime books and tourist books.
Pictorial History Hawkesbury
Pictorial
History Hawkesbury by Michelle Nichols is a new book in the famous
series of pictorial histories which cover the suburbs of Sydney.
The Hawkesbury district in Sydney’s west was once home to many
Australians and in the early 19th century had the second highest population
in the colony. In the first few decades of the 1800s the Hawkesbury
region was one of the major settlements alongside Sydney and Parramatta.
Indeed many Australians can trace their origins (both convict and free)
to this district.
In the Hawkesbury history suburbs extending from Bilpin, Colo, Ebenezer,
Kurrajong, Mount Tomah, Richmond, Windsor and Wiseman’s Ferry
are represented in a wide range of black and white photographs. The
book includes the historic areas of Cattai, Riverstone, Londonderry
and Yarramundi. With over 190 rare and interesting photographs it isa
fascinating overview of the history of the area from Aboriginal to modern
times.
Michelle Nichols lives in the Hawkesbury and is the author of Disastrous
Decade: Flood & fire in Windsor 1864-1874 (2001) and Hawkesbury
1794-1994 (1994) co-authored with Jan Barkley.
This book has been produced by Kingsclear Books with the assistance
of the Hawkesbury City Council.
RRP $24.95 plus $5 postage (includes GST)
ISBN 0-908272-78-2