Sydney Updated Paperback Edition
DOWNLOAD eBooks
Download Sydney Updated Paperback Edition PDF/ePub or read online books in Mobi eBooks. Click Download or Read Online button to get Sydney Updated Paperback Edition book now. This website allows unlimited access to, at the time of writing, more than 1.5 million titles, including hundreds of thousands of titles in various foreign languages. If the content not found or just blank you must refresh this page
Sydney Updated Paperback Edition
DOWNLOAD eBooks
Author : Delia Falconer
language : en
Publisher: NewSouth Publishing
Release Date : 2020-11-16
Sydney Updated Paperback Edition written by Delia Falconer and has been published by NewSouth Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-11-16 with Travel categories.
As I set out from the city's southern end, the sandstone walls beneath the Central railway line still held the day's heat...I passed a row of old terraces where feral banana trees had colonised the tiny courtyards behind them, and walked on, past the smell of Thai food, up dirty William Street...The moon rose from the invisible harbour into a sky of such deep royal blue it was almost hard to believe in. The street smelled of low tied. For all its beauty, the city could return in an instant to pulp. And that thought was strangely cheering. Sydney has always been the sexiest and brashest of our cities, but perhaps the most misunderstood. In this new edition of Sydney – part of the classic City Series – Delia Falconer conjures up its sandstone, humidity and jacarandas, its fireworks, glitz and magic. But she discards lazy stereotypes to reveal a complex city: beautiful, violent, half-wild, and at times deeply spiritual. Beginning with her childhood in a decaying '70s Sydney, caught between a faded Art Deco age and mega development, Falconer intertwines her own stories with the wellsprings of the city's history and its literary past. Melancholic, moving and funny — Sydney is about its people: mad clergymen, amateur astronomers, Indigenous weather experts, crimes and victims, photographers and artists, thinkers and dreamers. Falconer's Sydney is intensely atmospheric and seductive. Now with a new Afterword in which Falconer ponders the city's twenty-first century transformations — might it have become a softer, nicer place? Will it be able to withstand the real presence of climate change? — and her own. 'THIS is Delia Falconer's Sydney. She journeys through time and space (both hers and her city's) as an explorer, gentle companion and confidant to the ghosts of its swaggering history. This soul travel gives the book both its allure and alienation. Falconer writes beautifully and evocatively in what is a long love letter to her home town, as she delves deep into its essence. But it is in the depths that she changes, like an alchemist, the city's meaning. Perception is all. Many Sydneysiders may not recognise, or have empathy, with this place … Falconer's Sydney dazzles. You can see the city's showers of light, its clashes of lightning, its thunder teeming. Such is her skill, the elements shear off their axes. You can feel the crush of heat and humidity on your skin in summer, and the cleansing when a tempest sweeps through and washes the city clean.' – The Age 'Delia Falconer's Sydney...is like its harbour, brimful with tones, vivid with contemplation.' — Australian Book Review '[Falconer's] arguments about the sombre undercurrents of Sydney are more delicate than I can give here, but she has succeeded in doing something no other writer has achieved in writing about Sydney: she has given it a melancholic and spectral seriousness that for far too long has been hidden under tinsel and fairy lights. In other words, she has given the city a unique, mythic dimension. This is a brilliant book. If I were to recommend a book about Sydney to anyone, it would be this one.' — Louis Nowra, The Australian 'Falconer's Sydney depicts a city of beauty and violence, of pain and redemption. Whatever your relationship with Sydney, put aside your entrenched preconceptions and explore this book. It may not change your opinion of Australia's largest city, but I'm certain this book will give you a new perspective on our first city' — The Canberra Times
Public Sydney
DOWNLOAD eBooks
Author : Philip Thalis
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013
Public Sydney written by Philip Thalis and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Architecture categories.
For the first time, see the making of Sydney and all its public buildings and places in exquisite drawings in this new book. For anyone who cares about Sydney, or cities in general -- whether a passionate city dweller, architect, landscape designer, planner, engineer or historian -- it offers a deep appreciation of the city's evolution.
Sydney
DOWNLOAD eBooks
Author : Evan McHugh
language : en
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Release Date : 2013
Sydney written by Evan McHugh and has been published by National Geographic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Travel categories.
Previous ed.: published by Evan McHugh, 1999.
Alphabetical Sydney
DOWNLOAD eBooks
Author : Antonia Pesenti
language : en
Publisher: NewSouth
Release Date : 2013
Alphabetical Sydney written by Antonia Pesenti and has been published by NewSouth this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
This is our Sydney, the brightest and best of it, North to the south to the east and the west of it. Bats and cicadas, lawn bowls and the zoo, This is our town. Let us share it with you.
Private Sydney
DOWNLOAD eBooks
Author : James Patterson
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2015-08-13
Private Sydney written by James Patterson and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-08-13 with Fiction categories.
We will take on any case, solve any crime, uncover any secret. We are Private. And we're the best. _____________________________ Even for Private Investigations, the world's top detective agency, it's tough to find a man who doesn't exist... Craig Gisto has promised Eliza Moss that his elite team at Private Sydney will investigate the disappearance of her father. After all, as CEO of a high-profile research company, Eric Moss shouldn't be difficult to find. Except it's not just the man who's gone missing. Despite the most advanced technology at their disposal, they find every trace of him has vanished too. And they aren't the only ones on the hunt. Powerful figures want Moss to stay 'lost', while others just as ruthlessly want him found. Meanwhile, a routine background check becomes a frantic race to find a stolen baby and catch a brutal killer - a killer Private may well have sent straight to the victim's door . . .
Hobart Updated Paperback Edition
DOWNLOAD eBooks
Author : Peter Timms
language : en
Publisher: NewSouth Publishing
Release Date : 2020-11-16
Hobart Updated Paperback Edition written by Peter Timms and has been published by NewSouth Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-11-16 with Travel categories.
MONA has done a lot more than just rescue a flagging tourism economy. It has changed the city's body language, teaching it to stand up straight and look others squarely in the eye, even putting a swagger in its step. Peter Timms leads us on a journey through his adopted city of Hobart, Australia's smallest, most southerly, least prosperous, but arguably most beautiful state capital. From Hobart's convict legacy, its spectacular natural setting, heritage architecture and climate, to crime rates, economic hardship and new developments – not to mention the game-changer that is MONA – Timms explores the city with a mixture of affection, admiration, frustration and sadness. Those who have experienced Hobart as tourists will be surprised and intrigued by the complex society and history this book reveals. Those who live there will surely discover their city anew, propelled by the author's fondness for it. In a new introduction, Timms reflects on what has been nothing short of a tourism-driven revolution since Hobart was first published in 2009. '…sometimes it takes an outsider to skewer a city more accurately than someone with a lifetime of familiarity with it. I simply couldn't put it down.' — Leo Schofield 'Three years ago, in 2009, Peter Timms published In Search of Hobart. Now his musings and reflections about Australia's oldest city, one where sedate Georgian elegance has been beautifully if inadvertently preserved, have been reconsidered, reappraised and updated. They fit tidily and aptly into what is now a consistently charming, intellectually consequent series on Australia's capitals.' — Mark Thomas, The Canberra Times 'Timms has set a high standard. This is the kind of book that everyone travelling to Hobart and Tasmania should read because it offers thoughtful explanations of the uniqueness of the island state.' — Sydney Morning Herald
The Piano Room
DOWNLOAD eBooks
Author : Clio Velentza
language : en
Publisher: Fairlight Books
Release Date : 2021-09-30
The Piano Room written by Clio Velentza and has been published by Fairlight Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-09-30 with Fiction categories.
Sandor Esterhazy is descended from a long line of talented pianists, but has no desire to play. So, one snowy afternoon, he promises his soul to the devil in exchange for a life of his own choosing. Afterwards, he laughs it off as a joke, but that night the devil arrives dragging someone – or something – with him. Uncertain what to do with the bewildered creature, Sandor locks it in the basement, allowing it out only once a night to visit the piano room – the creature, who he names Ferdi, is desperate to play. Sandor slips easily into his new role of captor, but as Ferdi learns what it is to be human, tensions between the two escalate, and Ferdi escapes into the world…
Melbourne Updated Paperback Edition
DOWNLOAD eBooks
Author : Sophie Cunningham
language : en
Publisher: NewSouth Publishing
Release Date : 2020-11-16
Melbourne Updated Paperback Edition written by Sophie Cunningham and has been published by NewSouth Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-11-16 with Travel categories.
Melbourne's a city you get to know from the inside out – you have to walk it to love it. My favourite time to do this is at night. That's when you capture glimpses of people – eating, laughing, talking, arguing, watching TV and reading – through half-open terrace house doors and windows … It is a city of inside places and conversation. Of intimacy. Melbourne begins on Black Saturday, the day that bushfires tore through the outskirts of Melbourne, destroying the townships of Marysville and Kinglake, shattering thousands of lives. Sophie Cunningham writes about what happened over the year that followed. Sit through a heatwave, visit the drains underneath the city, participate in a letterpress workshop, wander beside the Yarra, cycle alongside tram tracks and cheer at the footy. Live through the drought before the storm, the rain before yet more fire and days of searing heat. Along the way, be captivated as Cunningham shares her Melbourne, its stories and its characters. In a new introduction, Cunningham returns to Melbourne after a period away and reflects on how much her city has changed since Melbourne was first published in 2011: it is hotter, greener and has endured the rollercoaster ride – from boom times to economic depression – that defined 2020. 'Cunningham has successfully captured the dynamics of a city in constant flux, while focusing on the essence of its inner life, which gives it an ambience quite unlike that found in any other Australian city.' – Robert Hefner, The Canberra Times 'It would be nice to imagine that the gift of this book to Melbourne is its greater capacity to understand itself and its webs of connection.' – David Sornig, Melbourne Review 'An admirable response to the impossible task of writing about a city its history, its present, its characters, its stories, its politics and its personal meaning in a single, accessible volume when any one of these themes should take several. Cunningham is communicating this city's soul as though it's a person, full of contradictions but with an essential character.' — Waleed Aly, The Sunday Age 'This beautiful book provokes nostalgia and deeper thinking about the events, places and people who have defined Melbourne.' — Herald Sun 'Cunningham is communicating this city's soul as though it's a person, full of contradictions but with an essential character.' — Waleed Aly, Australian Book Review
Canberra Updated Paperback Edition
DOWNLOAD eBooks
Author : Paul Daley
language : en
Publisher: NewSouth Publishing
Release Date : 2020-11-16
Canberra Updated Paperback Edition written by Paul Daley and has been published by NewSouth Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-11-16 with Travel categories.
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 – but they'll never know just how good it is to live here. Canberra is a city of orphans. People come for the jobs but stay on as they discover unanticipated promise and opportunity. They become Canberrans – prosperous, highly educated and proud of their city. Paul Daley's Canberra fuses narrative history with poignant memoir and contemporary observation to evoke a city he calls the 'accidental miracle'. Beginning and ending at the lake and its submerged, forgotten suburbs, it chronicles the city's unsavoury early life and meanders through St John's graveyard where pioneers rest. Daley contemplates Canberra's vibrant suburban dynamic, while musing on a rich symbolism and internal life fostered by the bush and the treasure of the national cultural institutions. As fate would have it, after Canberra was first published to great acclaim in 2012 Daley moved to Sydney, a change he found wrenching. In a new afterword, he reflects on how much he misses Canberra as it transforms into a thriving city. '… Daley has unveiled a side of the city that many do not see.' — The Adelaide Advertiser 'Canberra is both a history and a personal love story' — The Age 'Daley's narration is done with flair and aplomb, making Canberra the best Canberra history yet.' — Ian Warden, The Canberra Times
The Sydney Language
DOWNLOAD eBooks
Author : Jakelin Troy
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019
The Sydney Language written by Jakelin Troy and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
English to Sydney language wordlist in semantic domains; notes on Sydney contact history, documentation of Sydney language, orthography, phonotactics and grammatical notes.