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UNINA9910665099803321 |
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Autore |
Daley Paul |
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Titolo |
Canberra [[electronic resource] /] / Paul Daley |
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Sydney, N.S.W., : NewSouth, 2012 |
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ISBN |
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1-74224-121-2 |
1-74224-611-7 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (336 p.) |
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Collana |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Canberra (A.C.T.) History |
Canberra (A.C.T.) Description and travel |
Canberra (A.C.T.) Social life and customs |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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""Contents""; ""Prologue""; ""THE PLAINS""; ""MONUMENTS IN THE GRASS""; ""CONTINUING CITY""; ""Epilogue""; ""Notes and Acknowledgments"" |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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, |
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