The beach : an Australian passion
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The beach : an Australian passion
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The work The beach : an Australian passion represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.
- Label
- The beach : an Australian passion
- Title remainder
- an Australian passion
- Statement of responsibility
- Robert Drewe
- Subject
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- trueAustralian
- Bathing customs -- Australia -- History
- trueBeaches -- Australia
- Beaches -- Australia -- Anecdotes
- Beaches -- Australia -- Pictorial works
- trueAustralia -- Social life and customs
- Beaches -- Recreational use -- Australia -- Pictorial works
- Beaches -- Recreational use -- Australia
- Australia -- Social life and customs -- Pictorial works
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- From an Indigenous food source to a hedonistic playground, the beach has long been a national obsession. Robert Drewe’s lyrical examination of Australian beach culture, in this new National Library of Australia publication, combines imagery from some of Australia’s most celebrated photographers with his stories - a favourite boat, a capsicum-strewn beach, a summer holiday and an unwelcome great white. Drewe looks at the sunny, salty sexiness of the beach that first enticed the crusading Mr William Gocher into the ocean at Manly in 1903, defying authorities in his neck-to-knee bathing costume. We’ve come a long way from sunbathing in stockings and pantaloons to the unabashed display of sun-kissed bodies of all shapes and sizes at any beach in the country today. But the beach also has a dark side as a place of tragedy, violence and danger, a place where sharks attack prone surfers and prime ministers disappear. In The Beach, Drewe turns his attention to the favourite coastal theme, but in a new way: a mix of history, reminiscence and lyrical description, complemented by photographs from the National Library of Australia’s collection
- Cataloging source
- ANL
- Dewey number
- 994
- Government publication
- federal national government publication
- Illustrations
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- illustrations
- maps
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
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