Corners of Melbourne
Language: English
Published by Text Publishing, Melbourne, 2023
- Signed
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Enlightenment, Manifold Heights, VIC, AustraliaEnlightenment
AbeBooks seller since October 31, 2025
Condition: Used - As new
£ 21.80
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Corners of Melbourne by Robyn Annear is a delightful exploration of Melbourne’s hidden stories, forgotten places, and colourful characters. Blending meticulous research with engaging storytelling, Annear uncovers the rich history tucked away in the city’s streets and laneways. This copy is in as new condition and signed by the author.
Seller Inventory # ABE-1781249643628
- Title
- Corners of Melbourne
- Author
- Robyn Annear
- Publisher
- Text Publishing, Melbourne
- Publication year
- 2023
- Condition
- As new
- Dust jacket
- As New
- Signed
- Signed by Author(s)
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1922790451
- ISBN 13
- 9781922790453
- Item weight
- 420 grams
- Dimensions
- 14.4 centimeters width by 21.7 centimeters height by 2.9 centimeters depth
- Seller catalogs
- Australia, History, Sociology, Travel
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 time
- the rude boys of the Fitzroy back streets who became the original ‘larrikins’
- infants named for the corners on which they’d been abandoned
- a 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.
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Enlightenment
Manifold Heights, VIC, Australia
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