Rocks
Life in Early Sydney
$76.32
- Paperback
312 pages
- Release Date
14 June 1994
Summary
A vivid recreation of the origins of the Sydney suburb of The Rocks that illuminates the real lives of the convicts and ex-convicts in the first forty years of white settlement.
The Rocks is Sydney’s earliest surviving neighbourhood. Grace Karskens builds up a vivid picture of the lives of its earliest white inhabitants. A wealth of historical documents, pictures, maps and archaeological evidence allows her to recover the words and gestures, tastes and habits, aspirations and fears, o…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780522848441 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0522848443 |
| Author: | Grace Karskens |
| Publisher: | Melbourne University Press |
| Imprint: | Melbourne University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 312 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 14 June 1994 |
| Weight: | 333g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 154mm x 25mm |
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About The Author
Grace Karskens
Grace Karskens is A. R. C. Post Doctoral Fellow in the History Department at the University of Sydney. Her interest in the Rocks stemmed from various projects during her years as a freelance historian and archaeologist. She is currently researching a book about the Rocks in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
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