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The Opera House: The extraordinary story of the building that symbolises Australia the people, the secrets, the scandals and the sheer genius
Peter FitzSimons
Australia, New South Wales, Architecture, History of architecture, History, Australasian & Pacific history
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- Trade Paperback Mar 30, 2022 | 9780733641336 | RRP $39.99 Buy Now
- e-Book Mar 30, 2022 | 9780733641343 | RRP $19.99 Buy Now
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- Trade Paperback Mar 30, 2022 | 9780733641336 | RRP $39.99 Buy Now
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- Audiobook Mar 30, 2022 | 9780733641350 | RRP $44.99 Buy Now
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- Trade Paperback Mar 30, 2022 | 9780733641336 | RRP $39.99 Buy Now
- e-Book Mar 30, 2022 | 9780733641343 | RRP $19.99 Buy Now
- Audiobook Mar 30, 2022 | 9780733641350 | RRP $44.99 Buy Now
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Epic and engaging, in The Opera House Australia's greatest storyteller captures the drama and history of Australia's most iconic building.
On a sacred site on the land of the Gadigal people, Tubowgule, a place
of gathering and storytelling for over 60,000 years, now sits the Sydney
Opera House. It is a breathtaking building recognised around the world
as a symbol of modern Australia. Along with the Taj Mahal and other
World Heritage sites, it is celebrated for its architectural grandeur
and the daring and innovation of its design.
But this stunning house on what is now called Bennelong Point also holds
many sorrows, secrets and scandals. In this fascinating and impeccably
researched biography, Peter FitzSimons exposes these secrets, marvels at
how this magnificent building came to be, details its enthralling history and
reveals the dramatic stories about the people whose lives were affected, both
negatively and positively, by its presence. Ambition, dispossession, betrayal,
professional rivalry, sexual intrigue, murder, bullying and breakdowns are
woven into the creation of this masterpiece of human ingenuity.
The Opera House shares the extraordinary stories connected to this
building that are as mesmerising as the light catching on its white sails.
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Peter FitzSimons
Peter FitzSimons AM is Australia's bestselling non-fiction writer, and for the past 35 years has also been a journalist and columnist with the SYDNEY MORNING HERALD and the SUN-HERALD.
He is the author of a number of highly successful books, including BREAKER MORANT, BURKE AND WILLS, MONASH'S MASTERPIECE, KOKODA, NED KELLY and GALLIPOLI, as well as biographies of such notable Australians as Sir Douglas Mawson, Nancy Wake and Nick Farr-Jones. His passion is to tell Australian stories, our own stories: of great men and women, of stirring events in our history.
Peter grew up on a farm north of Sydney, went to boarding school in Sydney and attended Sydney University. An ex-Wallaby, he also lived for several years in rural France and Italy, playing rugby for regional clubs. He and his wife Lisa Wilkinson AM - journalist, magazine editor and television presenter - have three children; they live in Sydney.
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