The Adelaide Story by Colin Thiele
The Adelaide Story by Colin Thiele
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The Adelaide Story
by Colin Thiele
Peacock Publications, 1983, ISBN 0909209669, colour photographic plates and sepia photographs throughout, illustrated endpapers, black and white photographic frontispiece, hardcover, dustjacket
Very Good Condition, minor edge and shelf wear, a little rubbing and bumping to edges and corners, no inscriptions, dustjacket shows minor edge and shelf wear with a little rubbing, bumping, chipping and small tears (see photographs)
“Colin Thiele’s panoramic look at Adelaide reveals a city which has always seemed different and, one suspects, her people hope to keep it that way. From the very beginning its planners were determined to avoid the mistakes made in other colonies. And it was different! It was carefully planned by visionaries attracted to Edward Gibbon Wakefield’s theory of systematic colonisation, which excluded convicts. The free settlers who came in 1836 and later to implement those theories were fortunate to have as their Surveyor-General, Colonel William Light who laid out a spacious city and then surrounded it with parklands.
Sometimes, the difference displayed was considered conservative. Yet, paradoxically, there was another side. The city of churches had just as many pubs! Radical reformers pioneered legislation that was copied around Australia, and sometimes the world. For example, South Australia was the first Australian colony to give women the vote and to recognise trade unions. The concept of secret ballots for elections and the Real Property Act were adopted by other countries...”
