
Discover the soul of Australia's remotest capital city. David Whish-Wilson's Perth delves into the deeper historical currents beneath the city's surface. Like the Swan River that flows in two directions, this book harmonizes Perth's contradictions and eccentricities. Whish-Wilson...

Dispelling some of the more unflattering stereotypes of Perth, acclaimed author and Perth native David Whish-Wilson describes how the city strikes a perfect harmony with its own eccentricities and contradictions, presenting a place of surprising beauty--of brilliant light and...

...we rarely travel far to swim. We occasionally cross the river to Leighton or Cottesloe, where the white sand squeaks underfoot and the champagne foam in the shallows tingles the legs and fizzes over the shoreline and makes children giddy with delight... the cirrus clouds above...