Quiet city : walking in West Terrace Cemetery / Carol Lefevre
- Bib ID:
- 6931922
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Lefevre, Carol, 1951-, author
- Description:
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- Mile End South Australia : Wakefield Press, 2016
- ©2016
- xiii, 321 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
- ISBN:
- 9781743053874 (paperback)
- Summary:
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Ordinary lives are revealed as extraordinary, as Carol Lefevre traces the stories of West Terrace Cemetery's little-known inhabitants: there is the tale of the man who fatally turned his back on a tiger, and the man who avoided one shipwreck only to perish in another; there is the story of the young woman who came home from a dance and drank belladonna, and those who died at the hands of one of South Australia's most notorious abortionists. Said to be the most poetic place in Adelaide, in this heritage-listed burial ground the beginnings of the colony of South Australia are still within reach. Amid a sea of weather-bleached monuments, the excavated remains of Australia's oldest crematorium can be seen, and its quietest corner shelters the country's first dedicated military cemetery. From archives, and headstones, the author recovers histories that time and weather threaten to obliterate. Quiet City is a book for everyone who has ever wandered through an old graveyard and wished its stones could speak.
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- Includes index.
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- Copyright:
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- Publication date:
- 2016
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