Summer in the Hills: The Nineteenth-Century Mountain Resort in Australia.(Book review)

From: The Australian Journal of Politics and History | Date: September 1, 2008| Author: | Copyright information

Summer in the Hills: The Nineteenth-Century Mountain Resort in Australia. By Andrea Inglis (Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2007), ISBN:1 74097 138 8, $44.00 (pb).

Although as a child I enjoyed holidays in the Blue Mountains rather than at the beach, as I grew older I became aware that my family's holiday destination choice was not a fashionable one. The air of genteel decay in mountain resorts in the 1960s was all too evident, and I occasionally wondered about the previous history of such areas and the competition between coast and mountain. Andrea Inglis's Summer ...

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