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Corners of Melbourne: The great orange-peel panic and other stories from the streets

Robyn Annear

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Description:What better defines a city than its street corners? A corner gives you a starting point, a destination and a place to turn. It’s furnished with pillar boxes, newsstands and tram stops, and lamp-posts for light and lounging. Where would you be likeliest to find a pub? At the corner, of course. And who better than Robyn Annear to usher you around the corners of Melbourne, and reveal their bizarre, baroque and mostly forgotten stories?In this (appropriately corner-shaped) book she will introduce you to:street-corner ‘galvanisers’ who offered the thrill of electric shock at threepence a timethe rude boys of the Fitzroy back streets who became the original ‘larrikins’infants named for the corners on which they’d been abandoneda rogues’ gallery of unruly women, incorrigible men and runaway horses…and, of course, the civic reprobates who discarded orange peel in the streets, to the endangerment of life and limb.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Corners of Melbourne: The great orange-peel panic and other stories from the streets. To get started finding Corners of Melbourne: The great orange-peel panic and other stories from the streets, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 336

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Text Publishing

Release: 2023

ISBN: 1922790451

Description: What better defines a city than its street corners? A corner gives you a starting point, a destination and a place to turn. It’s furnished with pillar boxes, newsstands and tram stops, and lamp-posts for light and lounging. Where would you be likeliest to find a pub? At the corner, of course. And who better than Robyn Annear to usher you around the corners of Melbourne, and reveal their bizarre, baroque and mostly forgotten stories?In this (appropriately corner-shaped) book she will introduce you to:street-corner ‘galvanisers’ who offered the thrill of electric shock at threepence a timethe rude boys of the Fitzroy back streets who became the original ‘larrikins’infants named for the corners on which they’d been abandoneda rogues’ gallery of unruly women, incorrigible men and runaway horses…and, of course, the civic reprobates who discarded orange peel in the streets, to the endangerment of life and limb.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Corners of Melbourne: The great orange-peel panic and other stories from the streets. To get started finding Corners of Melbourne: The great orange-peel panic and other stories from the streets, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

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