Local Colour: Travels in the Other Australia
by Bill Bachman and Tim Winton
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- Hardcover
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- 9622173608
- ISBN 13
- 9789622173606
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Odyssey, Hong Kong, 1994. Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. Illustrator: Bill Bachman [Photography]. The Other Australia is still out there. The landscape and people of the interior, and the extraordinary sights of make-do, bush art and human whimsy scattered across the continent are still very much a part of the national culture. For more than two years, photo-journalist Bill Bachman roamed the faraway places of Australia. Sometimes reporter, always observer, he explored the half-forgotten expanses that exist in reality as well as in national myth, and brought back thousands of pictures and volumes of notes. Distilled through a filter of reflection and memory, this text is the varied essence that remains. At the heart of the book are Bachman's photographs. The text he weaves around them forms an equally important part of the journey, blending fact with anecdote, history and humour. Novelist Tim Winton adds his own perspective in a series of vignettes on subjects as diverse as the complex topography of faces, the special place of corrugated iron in Australian culture, and the bogus glamour of the stockman's life. He celebrates the open road, redefines the romance of the swag, muses on the unwritten history of wayside junk, and marvels at "that other ocean", the outback sky. Together Bachman and Winton visit many places and explore many themes. Underlying and uniting them all is a sharp sense of local colour - without question a substance Australia possesses in great abundance. 256 pages. Illustrator: Bill Bachman [Photography]. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2-3 kilos. Category: Australian; Travel & Places; Travel. ISBN: 9622173608. ISBN/EAN: 9789622173606. Inventory No: 265721.. 9789622173606 This book is extra heavy, and may involve extra shipping charges to some countries.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
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- Title
- Local Colour: Travels in the Other Australia
- Author
- Bill Bachman and Tim Winton
- Illustrator
- Bill Bachman [Photography]
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Condition
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Reprint
- ISBN 10
- 9622173608
- ISBN 13
- 9789622173606
- Publisher
- Odyssey
- Place of Publication
- Hong Kong
- Date Published
- 1994
- Keywords
- BZDB43 Australian; Travel & Places; Travel. Bill Bachman [Photography] Unbranded ISBN: 9622173608 EAN: 9789622173606 Bill Bachman and Tim Winton Local Colour: Travels in the Other Australia
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