Description
SECOND HAND BOOK
Melbourne emerges, in this illustrated chronicle, as a character — a creature of alternate moods of heroism and eccentricity, grace and rapacity as it suffers the vicissitudes of fortune.
As its life changed — through settlement and development, buoyant good times, self-inflicted poverty and decline, resurrection and the excesses of good living — it was seen through different eyes in different ways.
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Brian Carroll’s story of Melbourne, and the accompanying collection of historic illustrations and photographs, sees Melbourne through all its phases of prosperity and decline and discusses the causes: the gold rush, the irresponsible enterprise of the land and building boom of the 1880s, the subsequent bank crashes and depression of the 1890s, the stagnation of the 20th century and the late surge of the city to the proportions we know today.
Specifications:
Condition: Good. Kept in plastic lining, only some minor markings on the top of the front cover.
Publisher: Lansdowne Press
Year: 1972
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 128
ISBN: 701801956
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