Canberra
«… Daley has unveiled a side of the city that many do not see.""- The Adelaide Advertiser»
A strong sense of 'otherness' defines Canberra to a point where there is a smugness, bordering on arrogance, that the rest of Australia can hate us - but they'll never know just how good it is to live here. Les mer
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New edition of a classic with a new Afterword in which Daley reminisces about the city he loves and how much it has changed since his book was first published in 2012
One of the book's themes is people coming and going from Canberra - even though Daley himself has moved to Sydney, he writes movingly about how so many of his family memories are there and how much he misses it
Uncovers unknown suburbs, people and facts about the place Australia loves to hate showing it's about much more than politics
Shows that Canberra didn't rise up fully formed after the competition to design it - it has a black - and white - history going back a long way
Full of great anecdotes and great characters: the man after whom Mount Ainslie is named and whose descendants have some surprising revelations; King O'Malley and his stagger juice; Marion Mahoney and Walter Burley Griffin; even the fictional Edith Campbell Berry
Afterword discusses the new light rail and Canberra's real estate boom
Detaljer
- Forlag
- NewSouth Publishing
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- ISBN
- 9781742237046
- Utgivelsesår
- 2020
- Format
- 18 x 11 cm
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«… Daley has unveiled a side of the city that many do not see.""- The Adelaide Advertiser»