The Rocks: Life in Early Sydney

Melbourne University Press, 1997. Black hard cover with gilt titles on spine. Contents tight with previous owner name inside. Some foxing to page edges. 304pp with illustrations. DW has some creasing.

An exploration of the early Rocks, Sydney's earliest surviving neighbourhood. A wealth of historical documents, pictures, maps and archaeological evidence allows Grace Karskens to recover the words and gestures, tastes and habits, aspirations and fears, of the dealers, publicans, labourers, artisans, watermen, washerwomen, servants and prostitutes who lived there.