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Tess Lea
Auteur van Darwin (The City Series)
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Tess Lea is the author of Darwin which has been shortlisted for the Non-Fiction Award in the 2016 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature. (Publisher Provided)
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Well, of course, tourists don’t have to visit during the build-up or the monsoon. But Lea gives the impression that there are social disadvantages to Darwin too:
And this:
And then there’s the cane toads and mosquitoes, urban crocodiles, and swimming pools that are unusually shallow, which means it warms up more readily in the build-up heat to a pea soup temperature, just when people are mad keen to escape the seething heat. Nothing lasts long: even the buildings corrode from within in the moist salty air, which is why it’s too expensive to protect what remains of the city’s heritage buildings.
To read the rest of my review please visit https://anzlitlovers.com/2017/04/09/darwin-new-south-city-series-9-by-tess-lea/… (meer)