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Buchbeschreibung Hardcover. Zustand: new. Hardcover. Beloved Melbourne historian Robyn Annear takes us on an unorthodox tour of the city's streets and corners, telling stories about the events and people that have made these the most interesting places to beWhat better defines a city than its street corners? A corner gives you a starting point, a destination and a place to turn. It's furnished with pillar boxes, newsstands and tram stops, and lamp-posts for light and lounging. Where would you be likeliest to find a pub? At the corner, of course.And who better than Robyn Annear to usher you around the corners of Melbourne, and reveal their bizarre, baroque and mostly forgotten stories?In this (appropriately corner-shaped) book she will introduce you to-street-corner 'galvanisers' who offered the thrill of electric shock at threepence a timethe rude boys of the Fitzroy back streets who became the original 'larrikins'infants named for the corners on which they'd been abandoneda rogues' gallery of unruly women, incorrigible men and runaway horses.and, of course, the civic reprobates who discarded orange peel in the streets, to the risk of life and limb. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9781922790453
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Buchbeschreibung Hardcover. Zustand: new. Hardcover. Beloved Melbourne historian Robyn Annear takes us on an unorthodox tour of the city's streets and corners, telling stories about the events and people that have made these the most interesting places to beWhat better defines a city than its street corners? A corner gives you a starting point, a destination and a place to turn. It's furnished with pillar boxes, newsstands and tram stops, and lamp-posts for light and lounging. Where would you be likeliest to find a pub? At the corner, of course.And who better than Robyn Annear to usher you around the corners of Melbourne, and reveal their bizarre, baroque and mostly forgotten stories?In this (appropriately corner-shaped) book she will introduce you to-street-corner 'galvanisers' who offered the thrill of electric shock at threepence a timethe rude boys of the Fitzroy back streets who became the original 'larrikins'infants named for the corners on which they'd been abandoneda rogues' gallery of unruly women, incorrigible men and runaway horses.and, of course, the civic reprobates who discarded orange peel in the streets, to the risk of life and limb. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9781922790453
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Buchbeschreibung Hardcover. Zustand: new. Hardcover. Beloved Melbourne historian Robyn Annear takes us on an unorthodox tour of the city's streets and corners, telling stories about the events and people that have made these the most interesting places to beWhat better defines a city than its street corners? A corner gives you a starting point, a destination and a place to turn. It's furnished with pillar boxes, newsstands and tram stops, and lamp-posts for light and lounging. Where would you be likeliest to find a pub? At the corner, of course.And who better than Robyn Annear to usher you around the corners of Melbourne, and reveal their bizarre, baroque and mostly forgotten stories?In this (appropriately corner-shaped) book she will introduce you to-street-corner 'galvanisers' who offered the thrill of electric shock at threepence a timethe rude boys of the Fitzroy back streets who became the original 'larrikins'infants named for the corners on which they'd been abandoneda rogues' gallery of unruly women, incorrigible men and runaway horses.and, of course, the civic reprobates who discarded orange peel in the streets, to the risk of life and limb. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9781922790453
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