Far too often the records of historical houses of Australia have dwelt on grandiose, especially the replicas of Georgian mansions left behind in England. But the real-time their homes were built by the battlers, the underprivileged settlers, many of them escaped convicts. Their houses were rarely designed. They just grew from the primitive materials and simple tools that were at hand. Here is a fascinating historical and architectural account of these pioneer dwellings, together with the very earliest Australian shelters, built by the Aborigines....