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Adrift in Melbourne: Seven Walks with Robyn Annear by Robyn Annear
$35.00 AUD
Category: Travel Guides
Melbourne's streets have always been marvellous--but the proud facades of the nineteenth-century boom aren't the half of it. What about the stories behind them? The great corset scandal of Melbourne's belle epoque; The heritage-listed toilets out the back of the Rialto; The exploits of the women who ra ...Show more
Bearbrass: Imagining Early Melbourne by Robyn Annear
$27.95 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction
Robyn Annear resurrects the village that was early Melbourne- from the arrival of white settlers in 1835 until the first gold rushes shook the town- and brings it to life in vivid colour. Bearbrass was one of the local names of Melbourne and this tenth anniversary edition includes revisions and updates ...Show more
Corners of Melbourne by Robyn Annear
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian
Melbourne's favourite historian, as seen in the acclaimed documentary, The Lost City of Melbourne, takes us on an unorthodox tour of the city's streets and corners, telling stories about the events and people that have made these the most interesting places to be.What better defines a city than its stre ...Show more
Nothing New: A History of Second-Hand by Robyn Annear
$29.99 AUD
Category: General History | Reading Level: 6 Home
'Given the way we live now,' writes Robyn Annear, 'it would be easy to suppose that newness has always been venerated.' But as this wonderfully entertaining short history makes clear, modern consumerism is an aberration. Mostly, everyday objects-from cast-off cookware to clothing worn down to rags-have ...Show more
Nothing but Gold : the Diggers of 1852 by Robyn Annear
$26.95 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction
Gold was discovered in Australia in 1851, and within a year the infant colony was transformed from a sump for convicts to a Land of Opportunity. Robyn Annear's lively history describes in detail life on the diggings: the mud of winter and dust of summer, the pluckiness of the women and children, the gro ...Show more
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