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MacKay, Hugh: Advance Australia-- Where?
Book Number: 47994
Hachette Livre Australia 2007 8vo softcover 356pp index. very good.
Keywords: Australia
Price: $14.00 |
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Watson, Anne: Building A Masterpiece: The Sydney Opera House
Book Number: 48023
Lund Humphries Pub Ltd October 31, 2006 4to hardcover in d/w 191pp very good. Signed and inscribed by Anne Watson. Half a century has passed since Australia's New South Wales government launched a competition to give Sydney a new music and performance centre. The result of that competition is the magnificent Sydney Opera House designed by the visionary Danish architect Jorn Utzon (b.1918) and the starting point for "Building a Masterpiece: The Sydney Opera House". When construction began, few could have imagined the enduring impact that Utzon's creation would have on Sydney, nor indeed Australia. But any great feat of imagination and ingenuity creates sub-plots, and the Opera House, perhaps more than any other twentieth-century structure of its stature, has generated many. "Building a Masterpiece" explores the many untold chapters in the long history of the Opera House's gestation, development and completion - of individuals whose careers were made or broken by the Opera House, the companies whose reputations were secured through their association with the building, and the pioneering construction methods, innovative technologies and methodologies developed to meet the demands of its unprecedented design and challenging construction. The workers who built the building, the politicians, architects and members of the public who championed it and its often beleaguered architect are discussed too as is its current world status as a symbol of Australia. Comprising an introduction and ten engaging essays, written by eminent authors and experts in the field, this comprehensive and richly illustrated book offers a unique account of the Sydney Opera House and is essential reading for anyone wishing to gain fresh insights into the complex history of this iconic building.
Keywords: Building A Masterpiece The Sydney Opera House Watson Anne
Price: $45.00 |
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Leatherbee, Albert T. (editor): Knocking About Being Some Adventures of Augustus Baker Pierce in Australia
Book Number: 48134
Shoestring Press 1984 Facsimile edition 8vo. hardcover. 181pp. index, b/w illus. Very good. / Very good d/w.
Keywords: Augustus Baker Pierce in Australia
Price: $18.00 |
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Ashton, Adrian: Sydney Savages 1956-1974
Book Number: 48148
Sydney Australia: The Sydney Savage Club, 1974 4to. red cloth hardcover. 176pp, b/w illus. very good. / Very good d/w. Limited to 500 copies of which this is no.23.
Keywords: Sydney Australia: The Sydney Savage Club
Price: $25.00 |
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Idriess, Ion.: The Tin Scratchers - The story of tin mining in the far North
Book Number: 48212
Sydney Angus and Robertson, 1959 8vo. paperback. 260pp. b/w plates. endpaper maps. Good+ ex-lib. / Good+ d/w with tape repairs.
Keywords: australian history travel tin mining northern queensland
Price: $40.00 |
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Cole, Tom: Riding the wildman plains: The letters and diaries of Tom Cole, 1923-1943
Book Number: 48230
Pan Macmillan Sun Australia 1994 Large 8vo hardcover 232pp b/w illus Very good, owner's name on fep. / Very good d/w.
Keywords: australian outback adventure Riding wildman plains letters diariesTom Cole 1923 1943 Cole Tom
Price: $25.00 |
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Grant, Arch.: Palmerston to Darwin : 75 years service on the frontier
Book Number: 48235
Dee Why, N.S.W. Frontier Publications 1990 8vo softcover 182pp index, b/w illus. very good, signed by author on fep.
Keywords: United Church in North Australia History Australian Inland Mission History Frontier and pioneer life Northern Territory No Palmerston to Darwin 75 years service on the frontier Grant Arch
Price: $15.00 |
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Parkinson, Sydney: Journal of a Voyage to the South Seas in HMS Endeavour
Book Number: 48239
Caliban Books, London, 1984. 8vo. hardcover. 214pp. b/w illus. Fair, ex-lib. Spine slanted, tape marks & tears inside covers. / Good d/w creased on edge with tape marks verso.
Keywords: cook pacific Voyage South Seas HMS Endeavour
Price: $65.00 |
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Cockington, James: Banned : Tales from the Bizarre History of Australian Obscenity
Book Number: 48241
ABC Books 2005 8vo. softcover. 246pp. b/w illus. Very good.
Keywords: History of Australian Obscenity wowserism
Price: $16.50 |
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Cole, Tom: Hell west and crooked
Book Number: 48245
Sydney Angus & Robertson 1990 4to hardcover 292pp index, colour & b/w illus, maps. very good / very good d/w.
Keywords: Cole Tom 1906 1995 Stockmen Northern Territory Biography Hunters Northern Territory Biography Frontier and pioneer life Hell west and crooked Cole Tom
Price: $35.00 |
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