The Burning Mists of Time

A Technological and Social History of Mining at Katoomba

The fascinating story of the establishment if the town of Katoomba in the Blue Mountains of NSW, including the history of the Scenic Railway.

This book traces the people who lived here in the late 1800s, the pioneering developers who were drawn by the world's richest oil shale deposits and associated coal seams, and the roles of those people and their works in the rise of Katoomba to touristic fame.