Sydney: Portrait of a City by Geoffrey Moorhouse
Sydney: Portrait of a City

Geoffrey Moorhouse

Sydney: Portrait of a City

Geoffrey Moorhouse

288 pages first pub 1999 (editions)

nonfiction history emotional informative reflective slow-paced
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Sydney's harbor establishes it as one of the most attractive modern cities, but its beginnings suggest something different. In 1770, the British Parliament saw the area as a solution to England's overcrowded prisons. On arriving at the harbor, the...

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