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In Colonial Australia, fortunes made from wool and gold launched a landowning elite - the "squattocracy".
Their taste in homes, art and furnishings set the benchmark for the times. Their manners were impeccable, their clothes magnificent, their parties legendary.
No one could be more generous in a good cause - but their genteel lifestyles relied on tough management, skilful raising of livestock, and an army of farm workers and servants. Eventually their wealth and status declined, amidst depressions and upheavals.
However the Armytages preserved the elegant way of life in the 20th century.And they managed to save Como from the bulldozers which destroyed most magnificent city homes after World War II.
Anita Selzer takes us into their opulent world, uncovering gentry and convict origins, and forthright ways of claiming land. Her book reveals bygone social splendours, domestic drudgery, and the workings of mines and sheep stations, from Tasmania to outback Queensland. It introduces people with human foibles and noble social vision, who conserved for all Australians a vital part of our heritage.
