Burra Sketchbook by Maurice Perry and Ian Auhl (1972)

Burra Sketchbook

Drawings by Maurice Perry

Text by Ian Auhl

Rigby, 1972, [Reprinted], ISBN 0851791328, black and white illustrations throughout, illustrated endpapers, hardcover, dustjacket

Very Good Condition, a little edge and shelf wear, a little rubbing and bumping to edges and corners, previous owners’ inscription on front endpaper, dustjacket shows a little edge and shelf wear with minor chipping (see photographs)

“The township of Burra is one of the most remarkable In Australia, because it is a “museum piece” which preserves in stone the memories of an historic era.  This was the period of about seventy years which began with the “Coppermania” which seized South Australia in the 1840s and ended when copper-mining became unprofitable.  The principal characters were Cornish miners, and the township which they established at Burra is a replica of one of the villages which stand on the rugged cliffs and moors of Cornwall.  In what was then the “outback” of the State, they built engine houses, ventilation shafts, churches, houses, and terraced cottages, which were all modelled on those of their home country.”

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