Download or read book Adelaide Hills Gardens written by Christine McCabe and published by . This book was released on 2022-02-22 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Adelaide Hills charts the evolution of gardening in Australia. And though anchored deeply in history, many of its gardens have their sights set firmly on the future. Old oak, elm and ash trees, planted long ago after memories of English gardens, live alongside stringybark eucalypts and native bush gullies, fruit-bearing orchards and wineries. All have thrived on the region's good rainfall, cool climate and natural springs. Over time, the Hills has weathered storms, droughts and fires. In response to these changing conditions, gardens, too, have changed. Heavily forested slopes have, in many cases, given way to veggie patches, free-ranging chickens and sheep, while Victorian rose and rhododendron hordes have made room for climate-compatible native flora. Encompassing twenty gardens, taking in grand Victorian estates and repurposed municipal water tanks alike, with evocative stories by Christine McCabe and sublime photography by Simon Griffiths, this book is a testament to the power of gardens to adapt, delight and restore.
Download or read book Your Complete Guide to Adelaide Hills South Australia written by and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Information for tourists visiting the Adelaide Hills Region.
Download or read book Adelaide Hills written by Shane McNally and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-15 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For visitors, the experience is breathtaking as these low-lying hills go from rolling farmland and natural bushland to sweeping vineyards, cherry farms and apple orchards. Then every few minutes, there's a town that offers a history lesson, photo opportunity, coffee or tea break, wine tasting and world-class dining and accommodation. The Adelaide Hills rise only 700 metres at the highest point. What they lack in height, though, they more than make up for in depth. They start just over five kilometres from the Adelaide CBD but take in more than 1000 square kilometres - making them ideal for a quick visit, a Devonshire tea, a drive to a local winery for lunch or an entire week lost in pristine valleys with access to busy country towns and tiny villages that have barely changed in more than 150 years. From Hahndorf which seamlessly blends tourism and culture to the restaurants and art of Stirling, the thriving rural centre of Mount Barker and dozens of townships established in the mid 1800s, the Adelaide Hills has a built heritage and lifestyle that matches its natural beauty. The rich history of the Adelaide Hills can be seen in every town and most of the roads that link them. Country cottages buried in thick woods and farmland are there for the observant traveller, so are stately mansions off the main road and even the odd ruin that's been kept in its original form for posterity. The living heritage continues to evolve, with the Adelaide Hills reviving an almost lost winemaking history to become a thriving wine district boasting some of Australia's best and most popular wineries and around 50 cellar doors. This book looks at what makes the Adelaide Hills an Australian treasure, with just enough words to inform and entertain without getting in the way of hundreds of images of the stunning landscape. It looks at the significant towns and the features that draw people to visit the Adelaide Hills - the wineries of course but also the walking trails, the conservation parks and a rich calendar of traditional, multicultural, artistic, sporting and culinary events that run throughout the four distinct seasons.
Download or read book The Wakefield Companion to South Australian History written by Wilfrid R. Prest and published by Wakefield Press*. This book was released on 2001 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains hundreds of well-researched, compact entries on events and movements, institutions and industries as well as longer essays on major themes from Aboriginal-European conflict and Aboriginal histories to more recent concerns of wages and water.
Download or read book Adelaide Hills written by South Australia. Department of Tourism and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 1 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tourist information for visitors to the Adelaide Hills, produced as part of the Department of Tourism's campaign, We welcome V.I.S.A., visitor in South Australia.
Download or read book Return to the Adelaide Hills written by Fiona McCallum and published by MIRA. This book was released on 2015-02-24 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Back on her family’s Australian ranch, a woman in mourning discovers a second chance at life and love in this novel of hope and new beginnings. Claire McIntyre has it all: an adoring husband, a chic town house, and a high-flying corporate career. But when tragedy strikes out of nowhere, Claire’s world is thrown into turmoil. Forced to reevaluate everything that matters to her, she soon finds herself back at the very place she’s been running from her whole life—the family property, where reputations are hard won and easily lost, and where fortune is as fickle as the weather. Here, in the rugged beauty of the Australian Adelaide Hills, Claire starts to rebuild her life with her friends, her father and his beloved racehorses—including a promising young horse called Paycheque. But just as she begins to find happiness, and perhaps even love, fate comes to call. Now Claire must decide whether to do the sensible thing, or risk it all on her newfound passion.
Download or read book Bird in Hand written by and published by . This book was released on 2016-12-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nestled in the picturesque Adelaide Hills of South Australia, Bird in Hand is a world-renowned producer of fine wine that celebrates place and passion not only through expert vinification, but also through food, art, and cultural events. Through lush photography, Bird in Hand: Adelaide Hills, Australia reveals the warm and sophisticated spirit of a family-run company offering world-class experiences intimately tied to their unique and beautiful setting. Refined cool-climate wine offerings, seasonal local "food flights" at The Gallery restaurant, specially curated art exhibitions, and an annual concert series combine to make any visit to Bird in Hand a multisensory immersive experience.
Download or read book Plants of the Adelaide Plains and Hills written by Gilbert Roelof Maria Dashorst and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An identification guide to the plants of Adelaide and its surrounds. Consists mainly of descriptions, maps and colour illustrations of some 1200 species. The authors are both botanists attached to the State Herbarium of South Australia.
Download or read book Bully for Them written by Fiona Scott-Norman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-03-01 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most difficult things about being bullied is the feeling that nobody else knows what it’s like. Twenty-two of Australia’s most talented and successful people know exactly what it’s like. In candid and entertaining interviews, leading lights from across Australian life recount how they were bullied and shunned at school just for being different. Not only did they survive the ordeal but their experiences helped shape them into the remarkable individuals they are today. Contributors include: Missy Higgins (musician), Hazem El Masri (NRL), Christos Tsiolkas (writer), Tiffiny Hall (TV), Alice Pung (writer), Sam Bramham (paralympian), Stella Young (disability advocate), Eddie Perfect (actor), Megan Washington (musician), Brendan Cowell (actor), Marieke Hardy (writer), Adam Goodes (AFL), Adam Boland (TV), Bindi Cole (artist), Charlie Pickering (TV), Kate Miller-Heidke (musician), Tim Ferguson (comedian), Penny Wong (politician), Benjamin Law (writer), Judith Lucy (comedian), Paul Capsis (musician) and Wendy Harmer (TV).
Download or read book Adelaide Hills and Barossa written by Carto Graphics and published by . This book was released on 2020-04 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A touring map of the Adelaide Hills and Barossa region. *Barossa wine region *Mount Crawford *Hahndorf, Stirling, Aldgate and Bridgewater
Download or read book City Maps Adelaide Hills Australia written by James Mcfee and published by . This book was released on 2017-08-28 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: City Maps Adelaide Hills Australia is an easy to use small pocket book filled with all you need for your stay in the big city. Attractions, pubs, bars, restaurants, museums, convenience stores, clothing stores, shopping centers, marketplaces, police, emergency facilities are only some of the places you will find in this map. This collection of maps is up to date with the latest developments of the city as of 2017. We hope you let this map be part of yet another fun Adelaide Hills adventure :)
Download or read book The Making of the South Australian Landscape written by Michael Williams and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Adelaide Hills written by Neville C. Collins and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Adelaide Hills - A History examines... the history of that portion of the Mount Lofty Ranges nearest Adelaide" -- cover description.
Download or read book Summer in the Hills written by Andrea Inglis and published by Australian Scholary Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the nineteenth century, Australia's colonial gentry made it fashionable to spend summer in the hills. Mountain resorts or hill stations - in such locations as Mount Macedon in Victoria, the Blue Mountains and Southern Highlands in New South Wales, the Adelaide Hills in South Australia and Toowoomba in Queensland - quickly attracted patrons eager to luxuriate in the cooler climate, seek out the curative mountain air, enjoy the exotic gardens or take part in the refined society which gathered there. In Summer in the Hills, Andrea Inglis examines these antipodean hill- stations in detail, discussing their Imperial and Anglo- Indian antecedents and also considering the sometimes- surprising variations, which manifested in the local exemplars. Drawing on a wealth of lively primary sources, she opens a window on to the distinctive society that developed in the hills. As well, she explores variously the role played by aesthetic values, the importance of medical opinion in defining the hill station as a health resort and the impact of the hill-station experience on colonial attitudes to the bush. Finally, her study suggests that the hill station - no less than the beach or the post-World War II ski resort - made a clear contribution to a fledgling sense of Australian national identity.
Download or read book People Places Buildings written by J. F. Faull and published by . This book was released on 1986-01-01 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Adelaide updated paperback edition written by Kerryn Goldsworthy and published by NewSouth Publishing. This book was released on 2020-11-16 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Any place you have experienced first-hand is a museum of memory, one whose exhibits conjure up, in widening ripples of association, a whole city: a red paddle-boat, a photograph of three children on a hot day, a marble Venus fetchingly half-naked in the shade. Kerryn Goldsworthy's acclaimed Adelaide is a museum of sorts, a personal guide to the city through a collection of objects, iconic and everyday. Goldsworthy navigates her southern home, discovering its identifying curios and passing them to the reader to touch, inspect and marvel at. These objects explore the beautiful, commonplace, dark and contradictory history of Adelaide: the heat, the wine, the weirdness, the progressive politics and the rigid colonial formality, the sinister horrors and the homey friendliness. They paint a lively portrait of her home city – as remembered, lived in, thought about, missed, loved, hated, laughed at, seen from afar and close up by assorted writers, citizens and visitors – as it exists in her memory and imagination. In a new afterword, Goldsworthy ponders changes and revelations since Adelaide was first published in 2011 including, inevitably, the record-breaking heat of a 46.6-degree day. 'For in many ways, Goldsworthy's impressively subtle and even-handed book is both a product of and a tribute to those same contradictions, demanding readers look beyond Adelaide's often deceptive surfaces and understand the hidden currents that have shaped its deeply idiosyncratic culture. Like its predecessors in NewSouth's cities series, Goldsworthy's book is as much personal essay as public document, a reflection on memory and place exploring the complex bonds that tie us to the places we call home, the profusion of images and sensations and memories that constitute our understanding, not just of where we came from, but of who we are.' — The Sydney Morning Herald 'Goldsworthy's prose is rich and effortless, suffused with memories of her own childhood and youth. Her book will be a boon to discerning visitors, and has much to teach the locals too.' – JM Coetzee 'Adelaide is a work of dazzling beauty and clarity that provides the reader with a vision of this city as unique and profound as any.' — Stephanie Hester, The Adelaide Review
Download or read book An Australian Girl written by Mrs. Alick Macleod and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 2020-09-28 with total page 757 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was one Sunday afternoon in the middle of December and in the province of South Australia. The grass was withered almost to the roots, fast turning gray and brown. Indeed, along the barer ridges of the beautiful hills that rise in serried ranks to the east of Adelaide, the herbage was already as dry and bleached as carded flax. In the gullies, thickly timbered and lying in perpetual shade, the ground still retained the faint graying green distinctive of Australian herbage in a state of transition from spring verdure to summer drought. But soon even the shadiest recesses would bear witness to the scorching dryness of the season. For even before the middle of this first month of summer, two or three of those phenomenal days had come which furnish anecdotes for many successive months alike to the weather statist and the numerous class who cultivate community of soul by comparing experiences of those dreadful days on which 'the hall thermometer stood at 104° before noon.' This Sunday had not quite been one of the days that make the oldest residents turn over heat averages extending to the early dawn of the country's history. But, nevertheless, it was a very hot, still day, without a breath of wind stirring, and in the distance that faint shimmering bluish haze which, to the experienced eye, tells its own tale of days to come. The masses of white, silver and messmate gum-trees that clothe these same Adelaide hills so thickly, formed a grateful resting-place for the eye, wearied with the steadfast glare of sunshine. So did the vineyards that dot their declining slopes, and the gardens and orchards that are scattered broadcast to the east of the town. But even Adelaide itself is interwoven with the foliage of trees, which do so much to mitigate, both for eye and body, the severities of a semi-tropical climate. This fascinating embroidery of trees is more especially observable in glancing over North Adelaide. This extensive and important suburb, which is divided from Adelaide proper by the Torrens Lake and Park Lands, lies considerably above the city and adjacent suburbs. So large a proportion of the houses are surrounded by gardens, that from some points of view North Adelaide looks like a well-trimmed wood, thickly studded with houses. And these gardens are, as a rule, neither suburban slips, with precocious trees selected for their speedy power of growth, nor the painfully pretentious enclosures which auctioneers delight to term 'grounds.' No, they are genuine gardens—roomy, shadowy, well planted, well watered; rich in flowers and many fruit-trees, bending in due season under their fertile loads; haunted with the hum of rifling bees, fragrant with the perfume of old-world blossoms. In such a garden on this Sunday afternoon a young man and woman were slowly pacing up and down a broad central walk, thickly trellised with vines. The gadding tendrils, the wealth of wide emerald leaves, the countless oval clusters of ripening grapes—Crystal, Black Prince, and delicate Ladies' Fingers—which clothed the trellis on the sides and overhead, made a delightful picture. So did the great rose-trees hard by, garlanded after their kind with pale pink, yellow, white and blood-red roses. Parallel with this vine arcade there were loquat trees loaded with thick clusters of clear-skinned creamy fruit, and orange-trees, with dark-green globes nestling among glossy boughs, sheeted in waxen blossoms, whose penetrating odour loaded the atmosphere. But as so often happens when a young man and woman are engaged in a tête-à-tête, neither the objects round them nor any topic of wide social importance engrossed their attention.
