A Garden on the Margaret: The Path to Old Bridge House by Gillian Lilleyman - 2011

University of Western Australia Press, 2006. Hardcover in Dustjacket. Fine. ARCHITECTURE AUSTRALIAN FLORA West Australiana Landscape ArchitectureSCARCE The University of Western Australia campus is one of the most beautiful, if not the most beautiful, of university campuses in Australia. This book documents the history of the university grounds, and its design, management, and landscape evolution. A Landscape for Learning is a reminder of the very rich educational resource the grounds can offer in botany, ecology, landscape design, and social history. The book also looks at the changes in landscape design over the decades and the driving forces behind them. Changing physical resources including fluctuations in water availability, the story of individuals involved in the development of the grounds, and the varying demands of a growing institution are covered. The University of Western Australia has been a major focus of civic pride ...x, 196 : ill. (some col.), maps, ports., facsims. ; 25 x 30 cm.… Read More

Perth: The Author. 2018. 1st ed., small quarto., pp.348, signed by the author, orig pictorial bds., b&w and sepia toned plates, col. Map, fine condn. A beautifully presented history in diary form of the south-west of Western Australia from 1872 to 1905 by Frances Louisa (Fanny) Brockman (née Bussell). "Fanny" was a daughter of Ellen (née Heppingstone) and Alfred Pickmore Bussell who were amongst the first settlers arriving at Augusta in the Swan River Colony (Western Australia) in 1830 and later taking up land at 'Cattle Chosen', Busselton on the Vasse River. The diary provides much historical information on the South-West Western Australia between 1872 and 1905 1st edition. Boards.