"Isabella - West of the Warrego" is a story of the push westward in that exciting era of expansion into the great unknown - 'land there for the taking'; of one man's obsession and the consequences; of the explorers; of the wuastion about an inland sea; of government schemes; of the discovery of gold in Bathurst, Bendigo and Ballarat and its effect on the whole country; of the separation of QUeensland and New South Wales, and finally, the discovery of artesian water in Western Queensland.
These were hard but heady, exciting times.
This extract from "In Champagne County" says it all. "As Mary McManus (nee Spencer, of Mt Abundance) wrote '... I have seen our dining room covered with maps and compasses - no one who was not an eye witness to the excitement that prevailed can have any idea of it.'
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