Sydney: The Story of a City

First US edition. Large 8vo. Pp. xii, 292; sources, bibliography, index. Smooth yellow cloth boards lettered in gilt to spine; untrimmed fore-edges. Yelllow endpapers. Jacket design of composite photo of Sydney, then and now, by Claudine Guerguerian.

Trollope said of Sydney that 'I despair of being able to convey to any reader my own idea of the beauty of Sydney Harbour. I have seen nothing equal to it in the way of land-locked sea scenery.' Detailed social and architectural history of Australia's principal metropolis – from its colonial beginnings to its becoming the host city of the 2000 Olympics. "Entirely worth buying for the virtuoso description of Sydney Harbour." –The Daily Telegraph