In this illustrated history of Australia's principal metropolis, Moorhouse explains the city in historical terms, describing how it has come to be the way it is - the most attractive of New World cities with all the virtues of American ones, but none of the vices. The Australian ingredients of warmth, loyalty and resilience also play their part.
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Höhe: 197 mm
Breite: 129 mm
Dicke: 20 mm
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978-0-7538-0991-4 (9780753809914)
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Geoffrey Moorhouse is 'one of the best writers of our time' (Byron Rogers, The Times), 'a brilliant historian' (Dirk Bogarde, Daily Telegraph) and 'a writer whose gifts are beyond category' (Jan Morris, Independent on Sunday). He is the author of eighteen books, which have won prizes and been translated into several languages. In 1982 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. His To the Frontier won the Thomas Cook Award for the best travel book of its year in 1984. He has recently concentrated on Tudor history, notably with THE PILGRIMAGE OF GRACE and, in 2005, GREAT HARRY'S NAVY. He lives in a hill village in North Yorkshire.
