The Faraway Land Of The House And Two Cows - 9780645475401

Sewerage ghost towns. They exist. Just ask Sorrowing Father, Dear Daughter and Blackened Boy, and Yankee doodle dandy that smiles with the eyes and his shadowy mate. The faraway land of the house and two cows is a story like no other. Untold and unique because it's the true story of the community once living on a sewerage farm, beside land and grass filtration paddocks being watered 24 hours a day with Melbourne's sewage. And it's told by colourful characters with their own connection to the sewerage farm, in a way that combines fact, memories and legendary tales with historical moments that mark time. This must read literary nonfiction was born out of Monika's PhD into sewerage town communities. It's a story about the families that built and maintained the Metropolitan Sewerage Farm on the outskirts of Melbourne, Australia, from 1892.The community was behind the making of one of Australia's most important civic works projects from the 1890s into the 1900s, providing job security during the 1890s economic crash and the 1930s depression.

• | Author: Monika Schott
• | Publisher: Dr Monika Schott
• | Publication Date: Jul 02, 2022
• | Number of Pages: 392 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover/History
• | ISBN-10: 0645475408
• | ISBN-13: 9780645475401