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Hobart
City series
By: Peter Timms
In this updated edition, 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 post-modern 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, the recent disfigurements of the developers, and the opening of MONA (the Museum of Old and New Art) Hobart's newest tourist attraction.
Timms brings a wealth of fresh insights. He explores 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 here will surely discover their city anew.
Peter was for many years the editor of the journal Art Monthly. In 1986 Oxford University Press published his definitive volume Australian Studio Pottery and China Painting.
Peter compiled an anthology of essays on gardening titled The Nature of Gardens, released by Allen & Unwin in 1999.
Among the contributors to this lively and unique collection are Marion Halligan, Margaret Scott, George Sedden and Alan Saunders.
His next book, Making Nature, combines personal memoir and natural history to explore Thoreau's conviction that the whole world can be revealed in our own backyard. It was published by Allen & Unwin in 2001.
What's Wrong With Contemporary Art was published by the University of New South Wales Press in 2004.
Australia's Quarter Acre: The Story of the Ordinary Suburban Garden was published by Melbourne University Press in 2006, and Private Lives: Australian at Home Since Federation was published in 2008.
In 2008 Peter completed a book on history of Hobart, In Search of Hobart, for the University of New South Wales Press.
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Hobart
City series
By: Peter Timms
Published: 1st December 2012
ISBN: 9781742233727
Number Of Pages: 294
Buy Online: booktopia.com.au
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