Description
‘Sydney is a port city and a Pacific city. From the very beginning exotic peoples walked through its streets: Tongan royals, tattooed Maoris, turbaned Malay Lascars, Chinese traders and Aborigines. If the cities of Australia’s south were always turned to Europe, Sydney was turned to the vast Pacific and all its diversity.’
The Birth of Sydney is a spectacular and brilliant anthology of writing about the creation of Australia’s oldest city. With Tim Flannery as our guide, we hear the voices of Arthur Phillip, Surgeon John White, Charles Darwin, Anthony Trollope, Nat Gould, Mark Twain and a host of others as they tell their story of a metropolis, built on one of the world’s most spectacular harbours, which began life as a dump for convicts.
ISBN: 9781876485450