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Making Modern Melbourne

NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. A description of our secondhand books is not always available. Please contact us if you have a question about this title.

Author: Jenny Lee

Format: Paperback

Number of Pages: 176


"You can read the past in this city, if you know where to look." An accessible and entertaining palm-sized mini-history with 50-plus black & white images, from the State Library of Victoria's pictures collection and contemporary photographers. From the publisher that brought you the bite-sized biography of eccentric Melbournian E W Cole comes a microcosmic history of Melbourne itself. In Making Modern Melbourne, Jenny Lee charts the city's story from illegal village to modern metropolis, sampling the marvellous and not-so-marvellous moments and reintroducing some of the unconventional characters who've shaped 'the Queen city of the South'. ?'Jenny Lee loves Melbourne. Her book comes as a small revelation, showing us the city growing up before our eyes.' - Robyn Annear
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Making Modern Melbourne
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NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. A description of our secondhand books is not always available. Please contact us if you have a question about this title.

Author: Jenny Lee

Format: Paperback

Number of Pages: 176


"You can read the past in this city, if you know where to look." An accessible and entertaining palm-sized mini-history with 50-plus black & white images, from the State Library of Victoria's pictures collection and contemporary photographers. From the publisher that brought you the bite-sized biography of eccentric Melbournian E W Cole comes a microcosmic history of Melbourne itself. In Making Modern Melbourne, Jenny Lee charts the city's story from illegal village to modern metropolis, sampling the marvellous and not-so-marvellous moments and reintroducing some of the unconventional characters who've shaped 'the Queen city of the South'. ?'Jenny Lee loves Melbourne. Her book comes as a small revelation, showing us the city growing up before our eyes.' - Robyn Annear

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