Melbourne (City Series Book 3) by Sophie Cunningham

By Sophie Cunningham

Sophie Cunningham writes a 12 months within the city’s existence, a yr that takes us from the heatwave that culminated on Black Saturday whilst temperatures soared to forty seven levels to the harmful deluge of a hailstorm. She walks via Melbourne’s oldest suburb to its biggest industry, she is going to the footy and to the comedy competition, she talks publishing and learns the best way to use a letterpress. alongside the best way she trips deep into her personal reminiscences of the town she grew up in, and tells tales from its heritage: the robbery of Picasso’s Weeping lady, the Hoddle highway bloodbath, William Barak’s trek from Healesville, the Westgate Bridge catastrophe, the excessive drama of the 1970 and 2009 AFL grand finals and the marketplace Murders of the sixties. She strolls via Melbourne’s rivers and creeks whereas contemplating the heritage of the wetlands and river that sit down at Melbourne’s middle. She clambers in the course of the drains that lie underneath. For it's water – the corralling of it, the surplus of it, the squandering of it, the shortcoming of it – that defi nes Melbourne’s heritage, its current and its future.

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