$44.99
- Paperback
160 pages
- Release Date
14 October 2025
Summary
Suppose that you could travel back in time to a Melbourne city street from 150 years ago or even longer. What might meet your eye that has eluded history’s gaze?
Shutter City presents city street views spanning the hurly-burly decades of the 1850s to 1870s, between the gold rushes and Marvellous Melbourne. Robyn Annear peers into every shadowy corner to reveal postcard streetscapes as miraculous time-capsules, packed with hidden-in-plain-sight historical detail. Her discoveries – she …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780522881776 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0522881777 |
| Author: | Robyn Annear |
| Publisher: | Melbourne University Press |
| Imprint: | Melbourne University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 160 |
| Release Date: | 14 October 2025 |
| Weight: | 1.09kg |
| Dimensions: | 27mm x 257mm x 258mm |
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Critics Review
“Robyn Annear has discovered another lost city.” - Gus Berger, filmmaker, The Lost City of Melbourne
Robyn Annear
Robyn Annear has been ransacking Melbourne’s history for thirty years. Her books include Bearbrass, A City Lost & Found (Whelan the Wrecker’s Melbourne) and Adrift in Melbourne.
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