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Record Nr.

UNINA9910453655303321

Autore

Cunningham Sophie

Titolo

Melbourne / / Sophie Cunningham

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Sydney, New South Wales : , : NewSouth, , 2011

©2011

ISBN

1-74224-562-5

1-74224-044-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (300 p.)

Collana

The City Series

Disciplina

994.51

Soggetti

City and town life - Australia - Melbourne (Vic.)

Wildfires - Social aspects - Australia - Melbourne (Vic.)

Electronic books.

Melbourne Social conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Map on endpapers.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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