Cockatoo Island: Sydney's Historic Dockyard
by Jeremy, John
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- Paperback
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Kings Cross, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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About This Item
UNSW Press Sydney 1998 . 24.0 x 18.0cms, 264pp, b/w Illusts, very good+ paperback & cover Australia built ships at Cockatoo Island between the 1850s and 1991. Jeremy was the dockyard's last CEO and this history 'provides fascinating detail and spectacular archival photograhy of Sydney Harbour's industrial heart. It introduces the ships of Cockatoo Dockyard and pays tribute to the many workers who earned the island its outstanding reputation'.
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- Bookseller
- THE CROSS Art + Books (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 197652
- Title
- Cockatoo Island: Sydney's Historic Dockyard
- Author
- Jeremy, John
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- UNSW Press Sydney 1998
- Keywords
- Sydney - Colonial, Sydney - National, Australian Studies - National harbour defence marine docks
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Kings Cross, Sydney, New South Wales
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We stock books about art, design, fashion and history, with a lot of books about Asian, Australian and Pacific arts, crafts, design and cultural history. We have books on women artists, academic analyses and dissident life as well as monographs on Old Masters and avant-garde artists.
Our shop is in Sydney's legendary Kings Cross, which provided alternatives to Australia's normalities and suburbia for 80 years. Colloquially known as The Cross, this name signifies Antipodean bohemia, street gangs and a famous red light district.
We buy quality books on the visual arts, architecture & design. We do not sell any children's books, cooking books, novels or self-help books. Five minutes walk from Kings Cross station, we are open between 10 – 6, every day of the week.
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