Leonie Knapman (9 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Personalised gift inscription by author. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. An illustrated history of the bright hopes and dismal failure that sparked and doused a nation's pioneering effort to produce its own petrol. An illustrated history of the bright hopes and dismal failure that sparked and doused a nation's pioneering effort to produce its own petrol. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Glen Davis: A Shale Oil Ghost Town and its People 1938-1954: Hardcover 22 September 2014. An illustrated history of the bright hopes and dismal failure that sparked and doused a nation's pioneering effort to produce its own petrol.hardcover, with illustrated boards and endpaper maps; 270pp., with full-colour and monochrome photographic illustrations. USED The town of Glen Davis nowadays is a ruin, a ghost town nestled and forgotten within the remote Capertee Valley. However, 60 years ago it was a bustling hive of activity, the home and livelihood of thousands of miners, industrial chemists, engineers and their families, and the businesses which supported their lifestyle. Built upon one of the richest oil-shale deposits in the world, Glen Davis was, at one time, the backbone of Australia's pioneering industrial infrastructure. Over time though, federal policy shifted and pushed the town into the shadows; wartime restrictions and rationing brought the death knell and the settlement was abandoned by those who felt that they had been as equally abandoned by the economic counsellors of their day. This is the complete history - social, industrial and political - of this lost town by someone who knew the place and grew up there as one of its citizens.…

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 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. Size: 4to.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Size 280mmX220mm. Joadja Creek, with its hundreds of photographs, conjures up the valley as it was one hundred years ago : the miners, their families, the village. A colour section shows the valley as it is today : deserted cottages, rusting machinery, abandoned school house. Appendixes explain the refining methods used, the geology and the origin of shale oil, and list all the known residents of the town. …

"Sales/posting to the USA suspended". Hard cover dust wrapper, quarto, 176pp. Light wear to dust wrapper/board edge. A very good copy. Profiles of people and their way of life during the early days of Australia's shale oil industry at Joadja Creek in the Southern highlands of New South Wales.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 176 pages. with folding pamphlet on Joadja-nice clean copy.

Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. An illustrated history of the bright hopes and dismal failure that sparked and doused a nation's pioneering effort to produce its own petrol. An illustrated history of the bright hopes and dismal failure that sparked and doused a nation's pioneering effort to produce its own petrol. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.…

Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. An illustrated history of the bright hopes and dismal failure that sparked and doused a nation's pioneering effort to produce its own petrol. An illustrated history of the bright hopes and dismal failure that sparked and doused a nation's pioneering effort to produce its own petrol. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…