Canberra / Paul Daley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Daley, Paul.

Series:

City Series

City series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Canberra (A.C.T.)--History.

Canberra (A.C.T.).

Canberra (A.C.T.)--Description and travel.

Canberra (A.C.T.)--Social life and customs.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (336 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Sydney, N.S.W. : NewSouth, 2012.

Summary:

Canberra is a city of orphans. People arrive temporarily for work, but stay on because they discover unanticipated promise and opportunity in a city that the rest of the country loathes but can't really do without. Daley's Canberra begins and ends at the lake and its forgotten suburbs, traces of which can still be found on Burley Griffin's banks. It meanders through the cultural institutions that chronicle the unsavoury early life of Canberra, the graveyard at St John's where the pioneers rest and the mountains that surround the city. In Canberra people don't ask you where you went to school,

Contents:

""Contents""; ""Prologue""; ""THE PLAINS""; ""MONUMENTS IN THE GRASS""; ""CONTINUING CITY""; ""Epilogue""; ""Notes and Acknowledgments""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

1-74224-121-2

1-74224-611-7

OCLC:

818819079