30 days in Sydney : a wildly distorted account / Peter Carey.
Material type: TextPublisher: New York : Bloomsbury, 2015Copyright date: ©2001Description: 248 pages : maps ; 21 cmContent type: text | cartographic image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781632863768 (hardback); 1632863766 (hardback)Other title: Thirty days in SydneySubject(s): Carey, Peter, 1943- -- Travel -- New South Wales -- Sydney | Sydney (N.S.W.) -- Description and travelDDC classification: 919.441 Summary: Peter Carey captures our imagination with a brilliant and unexpected portrait of Sydney. In the midst of the 2000 Olympic games, Australia native Peter Carey returns to Sydney after a seventeen-year absence. Examining the urban landscape as both a tourist and a prodigal son, Carey structures his account around the four elements-- Earth, Air, Fire, and Water-- insisting on the primacy of nature to this unique Australian cityscape.Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Peter Carey captures our imagination with a brilliant and unexpected portrait of Sydney. In the midst of the 2000 Olympic games, Australia native Peter Carey returns to Sydney after a seventeen-year absence. Examining the urban landscape as both a tourist and a prodigal son, Carey structures his account around the four elements-- Earth, Air, Fire, and Water-- insisting on the primacy of nature to this unique Australian cityscape.
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