Melbourne


Sophie Cunningham.
Bok Engelsk 2011 · Electronic books.
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1 online resource (300 p.)
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Map on endpapers.. - Contents; Foreword; Summer; Autumn; Winter; Spring; Summer, again; Afterword; Bibliography. - Sophie Cunningham writes a year in the city's life, a year that takes us from the heatwave that culminated on Black Saturday when temperatures soared to 47 degrees to the destructive deluge of a hailstorm. She walks through Melbourne's oldest suburb to its largest market, she goes to the footy and to the comedy festival, she talks publishing and learns how to use a letterpress. Along the way she journeys deep into her own recollections of the city she grew up in, and tells stories from its history: the theft of Picasso's Weeping Woman, the Hoddle Street massacre, William Barak's trek from Heal
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1-74224-044-5. - 1-74224-562-5

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