Add this copy of Joadja Creek: the Shale Oil Town and Its People 1870 to cart. $49.30, very good condition, Sold by Lawrence Jones rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Nobby Beach, QLD, AUSTRALIA, published 1988 by Hale & Iremonger.
Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination.
Seller's Description:
Very Good in Very Good jacket. 4to. 176pp, 16pp of colour photos (Joadja Creek today [1988]), illustrated throughout with b/w photos, two sketch maps, three appendices, index. Black cloth in jacket. Light edgewear to jacket, with compliments slip of an engineering company taped in at front, light foxing to top edge. The Australian Kerosene Oil and Mineral Company prospered for 30 years, until its liquidation in 1911 when its closure left Joadja Creek a ghost town. The book, with its hundreds of photographs, conjures up the valley when it was prosperous: the miners, their families, the village.
