Media: BOOK - paperback, 360 pages
Author: S. Priestley
Year: 2003
ISBN: 9781740971409
Other: b&w photos, maps, index
Publisher: Australian Scholarly Publishing

The first edition of 'Echuca' (1905) was produced to mark the municipal transition of the Borough into a City. This extended, fully revised and completely reset edition takes the story to the end of 1994, when Echuca was incorporated into the Shire of Campasie, remaining its municipal centre.

The Murray town has twinned with Moama, its old New South Wales rival, to become a thriving regional centre of nearly 13,000 people, using its 'romantic and colourful'; past as the basis of a tourist industry, drawing on the now extinct river trade and its ongoing strength in redgum milling and as a pleasure and sporting resort. Its history tellingly evokes aspects of the Australian character.

Contents:
Author's note to revised edition
Foreword to first edition
Maps
1. The Backdrop
2. Inns, Punts and Bridges
3. Hopwood's Township
4. Borough and River Port
5. Farmers and Factories
6. The Quiet Years
7. Irrigation and Revival
8. Postwar People
9. Bridging Work
10. Visitor Views
11. Representatives
Notes
Index