Peeps Into The Past: A Book Of Melbourne's Curiosities
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Step back in time to the sun-baked streets and shadowed laneways of old Melbourne, where the city's strangest secrets and most fascinating curiosities lie waiting to be uncovered. Peeps into the Past: A Book of Melbourne's Curiosities chronicles the hidden histories, eccentric characters, and forgotten episodes that shaped one of Australia's most storied cities, presenting a vivid portrait of colonial and early urban life that conventional history books rarely dare to illuminate. Mary Maxwell writes with the keen eye of a local historian and the warmth of a gifted storyteller, drawing readers into a Melbourne that was raw, ambitious, and endlessly surprising. Each vignette uncovers a layer of the city's social fabric — its landmarks, its legends, and the remarkable people who left their mark upon it — leaving the reader to wonder just how much more of Melbourne's extraordinary past remains hidden beneath the surface.
Author: Mary Maxwell
Format: Hardback
Genre: Australian history
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Step back in time to the sun-baked streets and shadowed laneways of old Melbourne, where the city's strangest secrets and most fascinating curiosities lie waiting to be uncovered. Peeps into the Past: A Book of Melbourne's Curiosities chronicles the hidden histories, eccentric characters, and forgotten episodes that shaped one of Australia's most storied cities, presenting a vivid portrait of colonial and early urban life that conventional history books rarely dare to illuminate. Mary Maxwell writes with the keen eye of a local historian and the warmth of a gifted storyteller, drawing readers into a Melbourne that was raw, ambitious, and endlessly surprising. Each vignette uncovers a layer of the city's social fabric — its landmarks, its legends, and the remarkable people who left their mark upon it — leaving the reader to wonder just how much more of Melbourne's extraordinary past remains hidden beneath the surface.