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1y The Traveller's Companion Once upon a Hume : the Traveller's Companion; Once upon a Hume : The Traveller's Companion. Volume the First, From Leppington to Mittagong, or From William Cordeaux to Jacob Knopp Thirlmere : BlueDawe Books , 2017 23404865 2017 single work prose travel
'Take a trip down the Hume Highway- but not as you know it.
'“Once Upon A Hume. takes the reader on a journey down the Great South Road, as the Hume Highway was once known,” Stephen Gard said.
'“But instead of going from town to town, we travel personality by personality, meeting some of the intriguing folk who lived near, or preyed upon, or prospered by, the Great South Road, in its earlier days.’”
'Few of the people described within the pages are well-known.
'But all have a story to share.' (Publication summary)
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2y The Traveller's Companion : Volume Two Once upon a Hume : the Traveller's Companion; From Mittagong to Goulburn, or from the War of the Chimes, to the Last Billycart Derby; Fun and Frivolity, Fury and Furore, Tragedy, Triumph, Terror and Tenacity, Bores, Brow-beaters, Blatherskites; Folk Who Dwelt by or Prospered from or Preyed upon the Old Hume Highway of New South Wales, in Days Bygone Thirlmere : BlueDawe Books , 2018 23404945 2018 single work prose travel 'Once Upon A Hume - Volume II - continues our journey down the ‘Great South Road’, as the Hume Highway was once known. We follow the original route, moving from personality to personality, catching up with some of the intriguing folk who lived near, or preyed upon, or prospered there, from the earliest days. Few of these folk or features are well-known. All have a story to share.' (Publication summary)
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3y The Traveller's Companion : Volume Three Thirlmere : BlueDawe Books , 2019 23405063 2019 single work prose travel
'A journey down the Great Southern Road, as the Old Hume Highway was once known. We follow the original route, moving from personality to personality, catching up with some of the intriguing folk who lived near, or preyed upon, or prospered there, from the earliest days. Few of these folk or features are well-known. All have a story to share.' (Publication summary)
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4y The Traveller's Companion : Volume Four From Gunning to Gundagai, or from Trooper Murray to Lieutenant Pilkington ; Folk Who Dwelt by or Prospered from or Preyed upon the Old Hume Highway of New South Wales, in Days Bygone Thirlmere : BlueDawe Books , 2020 23405159 2020 single work prose travel
'Once upon a Hume volume four pursues our journey down the Great Southern Road, as the Old Hume Highway was once known. We follow the original route, moving from personality to personality, catching up with some of the intriguing folk who lived near, or preyed upon, or prospered there, from its earliest days. Few of these folk or features are well-known. All have a story to share. Rapine, revels and reverence at Jerrawa. The eight bewhiskered sons of Henry Manton. Two doughty Yass ladies not to be trifled with. Mount Bowning, unlicked. Deep waters at Burrunjuck. 'Spider' Martin and the Bookham Battler. The mystery of Mary Mathews. The flivver and the monkey nose. The Jugiong rioters. Apocalypse at Coolac. The parable of the Warby Brothers at Mingay. Gunda-guys, Gunda-girls, a famous visit to the Niagara Cafe...and many other persons and prominences.' (Publication summary)
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5y The Traveller's Companion : Volume Five Thirlmere : BlueDawe Books , 2021 23405272 2021 single work prose travel
'Once Upon A Hume Volume Five concludes our journey down the 'Great South Road', as the Hume Highway was once known. We follow the original route, moving from personality to personality, catching up with some of the intriguing folk who lived near, or preyed upon, or prospered there, from the earliest days. Few of these folk or features are well-known. All have a story to share.The feuding Stuckey brothers of South Gundagai. Brave Mary Andrews and 'the Siege of Kimo 'Mysterious 'Sylvia' of Sylvia's Gap. A 'Little Sydney Harbour Bridge'. Philandering James Hillas, shot dead at Yabtree Station. Freight hijackers on the Hume Highway. Tarcutta's haunted milking machine. The strange Splatt family of Woomargama. Fiendish James Feeney and the saintly Father Therry. A suicide-note scratched on a billycan. The curious testament of Peter Stuckey Mitchell... and many other persons and places.' (Publication summary)