Echuca: A History

by Susan Priestley

This extended, fully revised edition of Echuca - A History takes the story to 1994, when Echuca was incorporated into the Shire of Campaspe. The Murray town has twinned with Moama, its old New South Wales rival, to become a thriving regional centre of nearly 13,000 people, using its romantic and colourful past as the basis of a tourist industry, drawing on the now extinct river trade and its ongoing strengths in redgum milling and as a pleasure and sporting resort. Its history tellingly evokes aspects of the Australian character.

345 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2009