01900nam 2200421 a 450 991066509980332120230126203635.01-74224-121-21-74224-611-7(CKB)2550000001134029(EBL)1057732(OCoLC)818819079(MiAaPQ)EBC1111122(EXLCZ)99255000000113402920121130d2012 uy 0engur|n|---|||||Canberra[electronic resource] /Paul DaleySydney, N.S.W. NewSouth20121 online resource (336 p.)City seriesDescription based upon print version of record.1-74223-318-X 1-306-02487-0 ""Contents""; ""Prologue""; ""THE PLAINS""; ""MONUMENTS IN THE GRASS""; ""CONTINUING CITY""; ""Epilogue""; ""Notes and Acknowledgments""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, Canberra (A.C.T.)HistoryCanberra (A.C.T.)Description and travelCanberra (A.C.T.)Social life and customs919.47Daley Paul1202558MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910665099803321Canberra2777850UNINA