{"title":"Barry Stone","description":"\u003cp\u003eBarry Stone's works invite readers on a journey through Australia's rich past and captivating landscapes. With a keen eye for detail and a deep appreciation for history, his books explore historic hotels and the lives of early settlers, weaving stories that bring Travel \u0026amp; Adventure to life through the lens of heritage and exploration.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThose drawn to History \u0026amp; Military themes will find his narratives insightful and evocative, blending vivid storytelling with meticulous research. Stone offers a unique perspective on Australia's colonial era, capturing the essence of place and time with both clarity and warmth.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"the-squatters-by-barry-stone-9781760291532","title":"The Squatters","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA very readable history of an important group of Australian pioneers\u003c\/em\u003e - Graham Seal, author of the bestselling \u003cem\u003eGreat Australian Stories\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFor the early settlers who came from Britain's crowded cities and tiny villages, it must have been extraordinarily liberating to pack their belongings onto a bullock dray and head beyond the reach of meddlesome authorities to claim new land for themselves.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSettlers spread out across inland Australia constructing windmills and fences, dry-stone walls and storehouses, livestock yards, and droving routes, the traces of which can still be seen today. The fortunate and indomitable succeeded, while countless others succumbed to drought and flood. Those who were successful became a class all their own: the scrub aristocrats.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBarry Stone has scoured through diaries, journals, and newspapers, and sorted myth from legend. He tells the stories of pioneers whose vision and hard work built pastoral empires running thousands of head of stock, providing meat for a growing colony and wool for export, a rural juggernaut that would lay the foundations of a prosperous nation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46850388361452,"sku":"9781760291532","price":37.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/20302263482814.jpg?v=1759087123"},{"product_id":"great-australian-historic-hotels-by-barry-stone-9781742374086","title":"Great Australian Historic Hotels","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOn Christmas Eve in 1882, an impromptu game of cricket was organised between the touring English Cricket team and a local side in the grounds of Rupertswood, a 50-room Italianate mansion in Sunbury, a 30-minute drive north of Melbourne. At dinner that night, Rupertswood's owner, Lady Janet Clark, marked the visitors' victory by presenting the English captain, Ivo Bligh, with a tiny urn that contained the charred remains of a set of bails. Thus, the legend of the Ashes, Australia's sporting Holy Grail, was born.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eGreat Australian Historic Hotels\u003c\/em\u003e, each hotel provides its own tantalising insight into the development of our nation as seen from its windows, porches, and balconies. From the tragic immigration tales of Q Station to the mining of oil shale by the Glen Davis Hotel in NSW's Capertee Valley; from the political skulduggery at the Hyatt Hotel Canberra to the viticulture of Padthaway Homestead; from the expansion of the Swan River Colony near Faversham House to the Victorian Gold Rush alongside Freeman on Ford. These hotels have seen it all, and they have rather a lot to say in the most salubrious of settings.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWe journey to every state in the nation, sometimes to the hotels we all know or think we know—like the Windsor in Melbourne—but most often to places we've never heard of. Places like North Bundaleer and Foxhunters Return, Poltalloch Station and Schouten House, hotels selected not for their glitz factor or their star ratings necessarily, but for their ability to tell a story. Their story and ours, too.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47536620339436,"sku":"9781742374086","price":39.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781742374086-great-australian-historic-hotels.jpg?v=1776384824"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.live\/collections\/barry-stone.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}