Quiet City Quiet City

Quiet City

Walking in West Terrace Cemetery

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"I do not think that I believe in ghosts, but just for this morning, just for the time it will take to ramble through this quiet city under clouds the colour of tin, or of pigeons' wings, I am going to believe in them." Ordinary lives are revealed as extraordinary, as Carol Lefevre traces the stories of West Terrace Cemetery's little-known inhabitants: there is the tale of the man who fatally turned his back on a tiger, and the man who avoided one shipwreck only to perish in another; there is the story of the young woman who came home from a dance and drank belladonna, and those who died at the hands of one of South Australia's most notorious abortionists. Said to be the most poetic place in Adelaide, in this heritage-listed burial ground the beginnings of the colony of South Australia are still within reach. Amid a sea of weather-bleached monuments, the excavated remains of Australia's oldest crematorium can be seen, and its quietest corner shelters the country's first dedicated military cemetery. From archives, and headstones, the author recovers histories that time and weather threaten to obliterate. "Quiet City" is a book for everyone who has ever wandered through an old graveyard and wished its stones could speak.

GENRE
Biographies & Memoirs
RELEASED
2016
11 February
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
336
Pages
PUBLISHER
Wakefield Press
SELLER
Wakefield Press Pty Ltd
SIZE
5.7
MB

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