My Library

Start Over Place a hold on this item Add to My Lists Export MARC Display Return To Browse Another Search
     
Limit search to available items
Result page: Previous Record Next Record
PRINT ITEM
Title Underground Australia / Michael McKernan.
Author McKernan, Michael, 1945-
Published Canberra : National Library of Australia, 2013

ITEM LOCATION CALL NO. STATUS
 GIP Main  720.473 M157U 2013    AVAILABLE
Descript. 140 pages : illustrations (some colour), portraits ; 26 x 25 cm.
Summary What lurks beneath the surface? In the bowels of a Sydney pub, the publican poses with his hand in chains: a reminder of the time when the underground store was a convict cell. A family, thrown out of home during the Great Depression, set up house in a cave. Women sort mushrooms in a disused railway tunnel in 1950s; a jazz band rehearses beneath the Royal George Hotel. As people go about their busy lives, beneath their feet members of the Cave Clan clamber through shadowy stormwater tunnels. Written by historian Michael McKernan, Underground Australia is illustrated with photographs from the National Library of Australia. With images by some of the country's best-known photographers, including Jeff Carter, Wolfgang Sievers and Frank Hurley, this book will take you on a journey to an amazing underground world.
Subject Caves -- Australia -- Pictorial works.
Earth sheltered houses -- Australia -- Pictorial works.
Underground construction -- Australia -- Pictorial works.
Underground reservoirs -- Australia -- Pictorial works.
Underground areas -- Australia -- Pictorial works.
Other Author National Library of Australia.
ISBN 9780642278081 (paperback)
Bookmark link for this record
Result page: Previous Record Next Record