· Paul Daley’s Canberra fuses narrative history with poignant memoir and contemporary observation to evoke a city he calls the ‘accidental miracle’. Beginning and ending at the lake and its submerged, forgotten suburbs, it chronicles the city’s unsavoury early life and meanders through St John’s graveyard where pioneers www.doorway.ru: Paperback. One of Australia's leading journalists and writers Paul Daley has written an account of the life and times of Canberra. A local Canberran with a passion for. Daley contemplates Canberra's vibrant suburban dynamic, while musing on a rich symbolism and internal life fostered by the bush and the treasure of the national cultural www.doorway.ru fate would have it, after Canberra was first published to great acclaim in .
by Paul Daley Be the first to review this item An implicit sense of public service and 'otherness' has now come to permeate Canberra's identity to a point that there is a great smugness, arrogance. Author and journalist Paul Daley's books—Canberra, Collingwood: A Love Story, Beersheeba and Armaggedon—have been finalists in major literary awards, including the Nib, the Manning Clark House Cultural Awards and the Prime Minister's History Prize. He is the winner of the Walkley Award for Investigative Journalism and the Paul Lyneham Award. Canberra, the book written by Paul Daley as part of NewSouth Books' City series, has been reissued with a new Afterword, written, as Daley has it, while "looking in the rearview mirror". "The book.
Daley contemplates Canberra's vibrant suburban dynamic, while musing on a rich symbolism and internal life fostered by the bush and the treasure of the national cultural www.doorway.ru fate would have it, after Canberra was first published to great acclaim in Daley moved to Sydney, a change he found wrenching. '(Daley's) narration of the history of the place, and of the city erected on it, is done with flair and aplomb, making Canberra among other things the best concise, broad-brush Canberra history yet. One major joy of the book is the way in which he gives Canberra's NINTBYs, who may be the world's nastiest and most unforgivable of their kind, some very hard slaps. Paul Daley has struck just the right note in this fascinating "history" of Canberra. It is eminently readable and a must-read for any Canberran. I hope others from outside will read it to to dispell some of teh myths about beautiful Canberra but also to fall in love with the Nation's Capital. It is a love story with warts.
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