In Search of Hobart
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- $16.99
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- $16.99
Publisher Description
Peter Timms leads us on a journey through his adopted city of Hobart, Australia’s smallest, most southerly, least prosperous, but arguably most beautiful state capital. He reveals a city in transition, shaking off its dark and troubled past to claim its special place in the contemporary world: ‘going boutique, nice and slow’, as one overseas visitor notes. From Hobart’s convict legacy, its spectacular natural setting, heritage architecture and climate, to crime-rates, economic hardship and the recent disfigurements of the developers, Timms brings a wealth of fresh insights, exploring the city with a mixture of affection, admiration, frustration and sadness, interviewing a wide range of residents along the way. Those who have experienced Hobart as tourists will be surprised and intrigued by the lively, complex society this book reveals. Those who live there will surely discover their city anew.
Customer Reviews
In search of Hobart
Beautifully written and evocative. Captures Hobart from the perspective of someone smart and literary who lives there but who is from elsewhere, so it has a wonderfully sensitive and informed take on the place without being tediously one-eyed about it. Oh and yes if you go to Hobart take the ferry down river to MONA.