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425 Pages, 6 x 9.25
Formats: Cloth, PDF, EPUB
Cloth, $49.99 (US $49.99) (CA $59.99)
Publication Date: November 2014
ISBN 9781742233789
Rights: WOR X UK, EUR, AU, NZ & ZA
University of New South Wales Press (Nov 2014)
NewSouth
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Will it work on my eReader?A forger and convicted felon, Francis Greenway was transported to Sydney in 1814. Only a decade later, his dreams of a “city superior in architectural beauty to London” began to be realized as he designed Hyde Park Barracks, St James’ Church, the Supreme Court, St Luke’s Church in Liverpool, and the Windsor courthouse. In this first biography of Greenway since 1953, award-winning author Alasdair McGregor scrutinizes the character and creative output of a man beset by contradictions and demons. He profiles Greenway’s landmark buildings, his complex and fraught relationship with Governor Lachlan Macquarie, and his thwarted ambitions and self-destruction.
Alasdair McGregor is the author of Frank Hurley: A Photographer’s Life; Mawson’s Huts: An Antarctic Expedition Journal; and Grand Obsessions: The Life and Work of Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahony Griffin, winner of the 2011 National Biography Award; and the coauthor of Australia’s Wild Islands and The Kimberley: Horizons of Stone, both with Quentin Chester.