Griffith Review 47: Looking West Tapa blanda - 2015

Brisbane: Griffith University. Very Good; Yellowed paper. Essays on Western Australia. Carmen Lawrence; . David Whish-Wilson; Steve Kinnane; Interview with Tim Winton. 500gms weight. 2015. Paperback. 1922182672 . Color Illustrations; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 330 pages .

Griffith University in conjunction with Text Publishing, 2015. Softcover. FINE!. "Go west young man"" has been a siren call in Australia, Canada and the US for centuries - a new frontier for them, yet already home to others for millennia. In Australia, the lure of bounty from mineral riches drew generations of fortune hunters to its western third. For some this was a stop on the road to a better place, for many a destination for new beginnings, while for those who had always lived there dislocation was inevitable. Since the 1980s Perth has become a byword for new wealth and in the first years of the 21st Century became a boom-town the likes of which Australia hasn't seen since the 1850s. There is evidence this is starting to slow, but what will be left when the boom deflates? WA is also Australia's (and perhaps the world's) largest state, most of which is a vast desert butting hard against a broiling ocean. The view, looking back east, is sceptical, looking west uncertain, with a lot of space… Leer más

Brisbane: Brisbane: Griffith University 2015 First Edition, 2015 Fine. Illustrated with colour plates