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Author Shanahan, Brendan, 1976- author.

Title The secret life of the Gold Coast / Brendan Shanahan
Published Carlton, Vic. : Melbourne University Publishing, 2013

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Contents Intro; Bio; Title; Dedication; Contents; Preface to the 2013 edition; Acknowledgements; Prologue; Chapter One; Chapter Two; Chapter Three; Chapter Four; Chapter Five; Chapter Six; Chapter Seven; Chapter Eight; Chapter Nine; Chapter Ten; Chapter Eleven; Chapter Twelve; Chapter Thirteen; Chapter Fourteen; Chapter Fifteen; Chapter Sixteen; Chapter Seventeen; Chapter Eighteen; Chapter Nineteen; Chapter Twenty; Chapter Twenty one; Chapter Twenty two; Chapter Twenty three; Chapter Twenty four; Chapter Twenty five; Chapter Twenty six; Epilogue; Imprint
Summary The Gold Coast: City of the Future; metropolis of dreams. In less than fifty years a tiny holiday town of fibro shacks and mangrove swamps has grown to become a city of almost a million people and an embodiment of our unquenchable lust for surf, sun and sand. Set against a backdrop of marina developments for the near-dead, a rampant drug culture, the underground porn industry and the anarchy of schoolies week, The Secret Life of the Gold Coast is a disturbing but often comical expose that trawls the underbelly of Gold Coast life while pondering the elusive nature of Paradise and the unexpected
Subject Shanahan, Brendan, 1976- -- Travel -- Australia -- Gold Coast (Qld.)
SUBJECT Shanahan, Brendan, 1976- fast
Subject Social conditions
Travel
SUBJECT Gold Coast (Qld.) -- Description and travel
Gold Coast (Qld.) -- Social conditions
Subject Queensland -- Gold Coast
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780522864359
052286435X
9780522864342
0522864341