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I loved this little book Apart from being beautiful to hold it is well written and a joy to read I am a local and I learnt so much about the city not only from a historical perspective but from the author s own perceptions of Perth the experience of his youth and bringing up his children while showing them his childhood haunts I loved the reminiscent feeling that pervaded the book and helped me remember my own experiences in certain locations type of weather or myself at a certain age The author gives us a meticulously researched tome factual as well as literary and generously quotes impressions from other writers who have been influenced by the city in some way I liked the way it was divided into chapters called river limestone coast plain and city of light the author has an affinity to nature and shows the reader the fundamental bones of Perth s spirit 1742233678 Meet Perth Not as a geographical spot on a map a destination in a travel guide or a byline in a band s biography but as a character Both entertaining and informative Perth gives you a wonderful look into the personality of this oft maligned city at the edge of the world. Book perth driving test I had honestly never heard of David Whish Wilson before this book was suggested to me by a well known online book seller but I m glad I finally decided to jump into the cold water clearly not the Indian Ocean and get it Perth and its harbour sibling Fremantle are often represented as two points in the same gelatinous mass The cast of luminaries includes many familiar names and places adding another layer of enjoyment to the reading of this book The only drawback if you want to call it that is that now I am left with an even longer books to read in the future 1742233678 An enjoyable story of some Perth history A good book for some summer time reading for someone who is now starting to feel like a Perth local. Entertainment book perth There are multiple instances in this book where the author describes an artwork in a great detail On the one hand I wish the book included images of these artworks for me to enjoy but on the other hand the description and impact of the artwork comes through in the story telling 1742233678 One of the interesting aspects of the New South City Series is that the authors vary in their approach to the task David Whish Wilson has surveyed Perth by using the landscape as a catalyst for his observations and memories from the landscape covered in four long chapters The River The Limestone Coast The Plain and The City of Light The book is also influenced by the author s current preoccupation with his family Because my three children are relatively young and because I spend so much time with them it s natural that my experience of the city often revisits my experiences as a child Down on the beach after sunset I watch them settle as the colours on the horizon fade and they begin to sense the night s quiet ghosting inhabiting the darkness in a way that s really only possible in a city like Perth It s a city with presence but balanced with an expansiveness that is perfectly suited to dreamers p. Pdf perdida 121 That expansiveness is in part due to Perth being one of the most sprawled 120km long cities on earth It s a city very dependent on cars and it s a bit startling to read that to sustain an individual in Perth s current housing stock tales 14. Book shops perth 5 hectares of land seven times the world average Western Australians Saudi Arabians and Singaporeans share the increasingly dishonourable status of being the most unsustainable people on the planet p 213 It s disconcerting to read about their rates of homelessness too not that Melbourne has anything to be proud of on that issue eitherAnother issue that would be interesting to contrast with Melbourne has to do with the obsession with sport Perth s obsession with sport has literally shaped the character of the city Some eighty percent of all open spaces within the city limits are sporting grounds which are in turn used by only five percent of the population on very rare occasions p. Book stores perth 250 I wonder if that s true of Melbourne too The area where I live has countless sporting grounds and our local council like most others probably spends a vast amount of ratepayers money maintaining them and building infrastructure like stadiums changing rooms watering systems and carparks and as far as I can tell there are never any complaints about this expenditure Indeed when it comes to voting for community grants sporting projects win every time over anything else As in Perth with the exception of the golf courses because the wealthy play golf whenever they like the majority of these sportsgrounds are play places for dogs during the week But they are certainly used at weekends Woe betide any pooch that strays onto a match in progress To read the rest of my review please visit 1742233678 Comfy reading for homesick expats Poetic nostalgic and often meandering Perth paints a pretty picture of a place I love It helps me develop a deeper appreciation for a city built on land so deeply layered in histories that have left only the faintest of traces A fine balance between memoir historical event and personal observation and examined through the lens of geology that forms the unique and beautiful landscape It makes me want to learn how to gidgee on South Beach and feel the burning sand on my feet Great read 1742233678 David Whish Wilson is the author of nine novels and three creative non fiction books He was born in Newcastle NSW but raised in Singapore Victoria and WA He left Australia aged eighteen to live for a decade in Europe Africa and Asia where he worked as a barman actor streetseller petty criminal labourer exterminator factory worker gardener clerk travel agent teacher and drug trial guinea pig. Perth scotland David s first novel in the Frank Swann crime series Line of Sight Penguin Australia was shortlisted for a Ned Kelly Award in 2012 He has since written three in the series the first three being published in Germany by Suhrkamp Verlag David wrote the Perth book in the NewSouth Books city series which was short listed for a WA P David Whish Wilson is the author of nine novels and three creative non fiction books He was born in Newcastle NSW but raised in Singapore Victoria and WA He left Australia aged eighteen to live for a decade in Europe Africa and Asia where he worked as a barman actor streetseller petty criminal labourer exterminator factory worker gardener clerk travel agent teacher and drug trial guinea pig. Perth roofing David s first novel in the Frank Swann crime series Line of Sight Penguin Australia was shortlisted for a Ned Kelly Award in 2012 He has since written three in the series the first three being published in Germany by Suhrkamp Verlag David wrote the Perth book in the NewSouth Books city series which was short listed for a WA Premiers Book Award David s first Lee Southern crime novel True West was shortlisted for a Ned Kelly Award for Best Fiction in 2020. Perth pubs He currently lives in Fremantle Western Australia with his partner and three kids where he teaches creative writing at Curtin University site_link David Whish Wilson s Perth is a place of surprising beauty of sand swept peace and brilliant light yet a place where the deeper historical currents are never too far beneath the surface Like the Swan River that flows in two directions at once at certain times with the fresh water flowing seawards above the salty water flowing in beneath it Perth strikes perfect harmony with the city s contradictions and eccentricities We look beyond shiny glass facades and boosterish talk of mining booms to the richness of the natural world and the trailblazers the rebels the occasional ghost and the ordinary people that bring Australia s remotest city to life Perth Author David Whish WilsonPerth is part of a series of books about Australia s capital cities each one written by a local author who can give us an intimate account of the city s history and character. Perth dfo This volume by Fremantle based writer David Whish Wilson is an insider s look at what it is like to grow up and reside in Perth the most isolated city in Australia if not the world sandwiched as it is between the Indian Ocean and the outback. Perth pfo To read my review in full please visit my blog 1742233678 The New South cities books are turning out to be a great little series Quirky and well written you never quite know how each city is going to be presented as one author s passions and eye for detail will be different from another s. Book perth I particularly enjoyed Perth as it was full of my favourite things music history the river and Fremantle To me these sum up Perth s uniqueness I try not to think about how beautiful the CBD would be with streets and architecture that would rival Melbourne if they hadn t been so wilfully and callously destroyed over the last seventy years it s still happening and it makes me furious Reading Perth is part balm to the sting there s lots to learn even if you ve lived here for a long time and David Whish Wilson writes well I haven t read any of his fiction but would do so happily if it s as entertaining as this 1742233678 I really enjoyed this book Not only because I ve lived in Perth since I was born but also because David uses such an ambulatory style to his book as if he was literally walking about the city and its environment I learned so much about what makes my home town what it is from the rocks beneath to the people to the sky above 1742233678 Nothing happens here nothing gets done but you get to like it you get to like the beating of the sun the washing of the sun The TriffidsDavid Whish Wilson takes a break from writing his locally set period noir and teaching creative writing at a local university to guide us through Perth as he sees it This series of books from NewSouth Publishing is part history of a chosen city part memoir part travelogue or at least that s how Perth turned out and I don t have any inclination to discover other peoples cities right now. Perth public transport Are you from another city or another country and have an interest in what makes the most remote capital city in the world tick or the prevailing attitude of its residents Perth just might be the book for you Were you born here but find yourself overseas Perth could well make you homesick enough to quit your job and fly home. Pdf perte passeport Whish Wilson wasn t the first choice for covering my adopted home town but he does a better job than I could have expected for the most part avoiding the trivialities and banal minutiae of being a local person writing about local people for local people whilst writing with a very obvious affection for his subject in an informative and engaging way He s no Peter Ackroyd but very few are. Perth dfo I consider myself a true Perthian in the same way David does and hundreds of thousands of others have done through the history of the city I m an outsider who has chosen to make his life in this massive urban sprawl paradise on Earth Through his words I share David s sense of privilege for knowing something of this place feeling this place and for the quiet gravitational pull of this force called belonging and the pride he managed to evoke within me for our remote little outpost was fully unexpected To put it another way I now feel less of an outsider. Perth pfo This book very briefly covers some fascinating local history that hadn t yet been explained to me in my six years in Perth not just those Aussie Larrikins beloved of all popular histories either but features the local aboriginals politicians and artists too and on the whole works so well as a primer for Perth history and lifestyle that copies should be provided to all new residents real depravity shocking wickedness undisguised vice and immorality is to be witnessed at midday in the most public thoroughfares of Perth with its population of 1500 than in any other city of fifty times its population either in Europe or America And in many ways this is still true today. EPub perthshire This is one of those times that finding a bibliography at the end was a welcome relief as my eyes were opened to some fascinating artists writers and musicians that had not previously crossed my path or been dismissed as just another local writer for local people. Perth book clubs I would question the validity of the title of this work however as David again like me is a resident of Fremantle and his passion for Freo overshadows the rest of the work This is where writing by local people for local people falls down I may have enjoyed reading about David and his family fishing at my favourite beach but what of those local to the other 120000km sprawl of this city Will the residents of northern modern harbour town Hillarys feel like they are reading about the place they inhabit I agree that choices should be made for this sort of brief overview but allowing the work to become so Fremantle centric is of detriment to the overall effect of the piece. Ebook perhotelan As is the fact that approximately half of the quotes used by the author were from local author done good Tim Winton and not just because it demonstrates a lack of resources used for me at least this kind of obvious authorial crush on such a widely feted fellow writer could just as easily have been offered by a high schooler who had just discovered literature Perhaps my lack of affection for Timmy really does make me an outsider though These are small criticisms of a book I took a great deal of pleasure from however 1742233678 I love Perth and found many interesting tidbits of history in this book There are moments of beautiful prose and moments that made me miss Perth deeply There were several moments of huh that s interesting But there were many moments of a bafflement because the book is all over the place b irritation because the author s own perspectives of Perth are presented as fact and c confusion because I can t really figure out who the book is for other than people who already love Perth I bought this book for my sister before her visit to Perth and I am very happy she read it whilst there and after visiting as I don t think the book would have meant much otherwise This is not a book for people who do not know this city. Perth pfo As for the writing Whish Wilson is clearly a good writer but the book lacks a coherent narrative arc The attempt to organise it by the river the coast and the suburbs offers some logic I suppose but the book is really a mishmash of thoughts and musings of the author Part memoir and part history book for me the book just sat uncomfortably between genres While many of the musings are interesting and some gave me new perspectives to ponder there were just as many that were presented as features of Perth that I just plain don t agree with Which would be fine if this book were pure memoir but it isn t One minor point of annoyance related to the lack of a coherent narrative is the organisation of the book itself As a reader I would have preferred consistent breaks in the text and than three chapters That could have helped with the book overall and made it enjoyable as a reader The author also spends ages describing works of art and works of fiction by others In the case of the former the book would have greatly benefited from including these works of art as pictures For example at one point I counted about 10 pages of text discussing a single painting The intention was I gathered to use it to explain about Perth s history but it was poorly executed. Perth dental David also teaches in the prison system in Perth and previously in Fiji where he started the countries first prisoner writing program, Perth scotland I would recommend this book to people who are already familiar with Perth and suggest they approach it as a memoir than as a book about Perth 1742233678