Leviathan: The Unauthorised Biography of Sydney

by John Birmingham

Book Overview

An electrifying, epic history of the city of Sydney as you have never seen her before. 'To peer deeply into this ghost city, the one lying beneath the surface, is to understand that Sydney has a soul and that it is a very dark place indeed.' Beneath the shining harbour, amid the towers of global greed and deep inside the bad-drugs madness of the suburban wastelands, lies Sydney's shadow history. Terrifying tsunamis, corpse-robbing morgue staff, killer...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0091842034
• ISBN13: 9780091842031
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: Vintage Books USA
• Length: 563 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.

Customer Reviews

An autopsy more than an autobiography

An astonishing book about my hometown, and ultimately peels back the skin and provides the autopsy on the scum ridden country I call my birthplace. Every Australian needs to read this book.