AUSTRALIAN ALPINE VILLAGE.—This unexpected view in a book of pictures of Australian scenes is of Thredbo, with its ski slopes in the background. Thredbo is the chief of the alpine villages in the Snowy Mountains of New South Wales. The resorts are, in effect, a by-product of the Snowy Mountains Scheme for hydro-electricity generation; access was possible only after roads had been cut by the Snowy Mountains Authority. The picture is from volume two of Robin Smith’s “Australia in Colour” (A. H. and A. W. Reed). Most of the other 51 whole-page plates in full colour are of rather more orthodox Australian scenes—glimses of cities, beaches, and farmlands; pictures of the always fascinating coral of the Great Barrier Reef, and of trees. Of these, the frontispiece of red gums along a stream bed is a masterpiece of nature, captured for this book by an artist with a camera.

Press, Volume CV, Issue 31007, 12 March 1966, Page 4

AUSTRALIAN ALPINE VILLAGE.—This unexpected view in a book of pictures of Australian scenes is of Thredbo, with its ski slopes in the background. Thredbo is the chief of the alpine villages in the Snowy Mountains of New South Wales. The resorts are, in effect, a by-product of the Snowy Mountains Scheme for hydro-electricity generation; access was possible only after roads had been cut by the Snowy Mountains Authority. The picture is from volume two of Robin Smith’s “Australia in Colour” (A. H. and A. W. Reed). Most of the other 51 whole-page plates in full colour are of rather more orthodox Australian scenes—glimses of cities, beaches, and farmlands; pictures of the always fascinating coral of the Great Barrier Reef, and of trees. Of these, the frontispiece of red gums along a stream bed is a masterpiece of nature, captured for this book by an artist with a camera.