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Author Turnbull, Lucy Hughes, 1958-

Title Sydney : biography of a city / Lucy Hughes Turnbull
Published Milsons Point, NSW ; New York : Random House Australia, 1999

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Description xiii, 534 pages and 41 unnumbered page of plates : illustrations (some color), maps, portraits ; 27cm
Contents 1. A bird's-eye view -- 2. The Kooris -- 3. The camp: 1788-1820 -- 4. The land, boys, we live in: 1821-1850 -- 5. The long boom -- 6. Proud provincial city -- 7. Growing up and spreading out -- 8. The past thirty years -- 9. Cove, quay, rocks, bridge -- 10. The locus of government -- 11. The city -- 12. Darling Harbour and the city's south -- 13. The harbour -- 14. The inner city -- 15. The eastern suburbs -- 16. The northern suburbs -- 17. The western suburbs -- 18. South Sydney, the south and southeast -- Conclusion
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 514-524) and index
SUBJECT Sydney (N.S.W.) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79021855 -- Biography. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99004833
Sydney (N.S.W.) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79021855 -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005024
LC no. 2001431094
ISBN 009183905X