Bearbrass: Imagining Early Melbourne - Robyn Annear torrent

Category: Adults, Documentary, History
Language: EnglishKeywords: Australia Melbourne Victoria

Written by Robyn Annear
Read by Helen Morse
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 32 Kbps
Unabridged

Bearbrass: Imagining Early Melbourne
Author: Robyn Annear

1st print edition: Mandarin, 1995. ISBN 1863304185
Audio edition: Louis Braille Audio, 1999, read by Helen Morse, unabridged, ISBN: 0732023912

Subjects: Talking books. Melbourne (Vic.) — History — 1834-1851.

The author has overlaid her reinvention of Bearbrass - one of the local names by which Melbourne was originally known - with her own impressions and experiences of the modern city, enabling Melburnians and visitors to rebuild the early township in their own minds.

CONTENTS:
Introduction
Chapter 1: Founders and Shapers
Chapter 2: The Shaping of Bearbrass
Chapter 3: Past Lives of City Streets
Chapter 4: Law and Order
Chapter 5: Bearbrass People
Chapter 6: A Land of Chops and Steak
Chapter 7: The Colonial Vice
Chapter 8: Bearbrass at Play
Epilogue: The End of Bearbrass
Further Reading
Acknowledgements
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Also includes an ePub of the 2nd edition, 2014.
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Note, source was the recent upload by fingers0214
https://audiobookbay.is/asbs/bearbrass-imagining-early-melbourne-by-robyn-annear-robyn-annear
With thanks and no disrespect intended by this reworking.
This was a cassette tape rip.
Plenty of background noise and some echo.
I used Audacity to filter the audio, reencoded and chapterised it.
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