Description |
1 online resource (290 pages) : illustrations, map |
Series |
City series |
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Série cidades.
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Summary |
Any place you have experienced first-hand is a museum of memory, one whose exhibits conjure up, in widening ripples of association, a whole city: a red paddle-boat, a photograph of three children on a hot day, a marble Venus fetchingly half-naked in the shade. Kerryn Goldsworthy's acclaimed Adelaide is a museum of sorts, a personal guide to the city through a collection of objects, iconic and everyday. Goldsworthy navigates her southern home, discovering its identifying curios and passing them to the reader to touch, inspect and marvel at. These objects explore the beautiful, commonplace, dark and contradictory history of Adelaide: the heat, the wine, the weirdness, the progressive politics and the rigid colonial formality, the sinister horrors and the homey friendliness |
Analysis |
Australian |
Notes |
First published in 2011 |
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Title from title screen |
Subject |
Goldsworthy, Kerryn, 1953- -- Travel -- South Australia -- Adelaide
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Manners and customs
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Social conditions
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Travel
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SUBJECT |
Adelaide (S.A.) -- Biography
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Adelaide (S.A.) -- Description and travel
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Adelaide (S.A.) -- History
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Adelaide (S.A.) -- Social conditions
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Adelaide (S.A.) -- Social life and customs
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Subject |
South Australia -- Adelaide
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Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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autobiographies (literary works)
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Autobiographies
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Biographies
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History
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Autobiographies.
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Autobiographies.
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9781742244976 |
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1742244971 |
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