Bairnsdale: Portrait Of An Australian Country Town (SIGNED)
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.
Edition: Limited Numbered and Signed Edition.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good condition
Pages: Good
Markings: Signed
Condition remarks: No. 85 of 150 copies.
A richly evocative work of local history and memoir, Bairnsdale: Portrait of an Australian Country Town chronicles the life and character of Bairnsdale, a regional town in Victoria's Gippsland region, through the keen literary eye of one of Australia's most celebrated prose stylists. Hal Porter draws on his own deep personal connection to the town, weaving together historical detail, social observation, and vivid personal recollection to paint a portrait that is as much about the rhythms of Australian country life as it is about one specific place. Written with Porter's signature wit and precise, almost baroque attention to language, the narrative illuminates the textures of small-town existence — its community bonds, its eccentricities, and its quiet dramas — across the decades of the twentieth century. The result is a work that transcends conventional local history, standing as a testament to the power of place in shaping identity and memory in the Australian experience.
Author: Hal Porter
Format: Hardback
Published: 1977, John Ferguson
Genre: Australian history
Edition: Limited Numbered and Signed Edition.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good condition
Pages: Good
Markings: Signed
Condition remarks: No. 85 of 150 copies.
A richly evocative work of local history and memoir, Bairnsdale: Portrait of an Australian Country Town chronicles the life and character of Bairnsdale, a regional town in Victoria's Gippsland region, through the keen literary eye of one of Australia's most celebrated prose stylists. Hal Porter draws on his own deep personal connection to the town, weaving together historical detail, social observation, and vivid personal recollection to paint a portrait that is as much about the rhythms of Australian country life as it is about one specific place. Written with Porter's signature wit and precise, almost baroque attention to language, the narrative illuminates the textures of small-town existence — its community bonds, its eccentricities, and its quiet dramas — across the decades of the twentieth century. The result is a work that transcends conventional local history, standing as a testament to the power of place in shaping identity and memory in the Australian experience.