Melbourne / Sophie Cunningham.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cunningham, Sophie, author.

Series:

The City Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wildfires--Social aspects--United States.

Wildfires.

City and town life.

Melbourne--Social conditions.

Melbourne.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (300 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chicago, Ill : University of New South Wales Press, [2012]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

Contents; Foreword; Summer; Autumn; Winter; Spring; Summer, again; Afterword; Bibliography

Notes:

Map on endpapers.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-74224-562-5

1-74224-044-5

OCLC:

743694069