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Title: The Rocks, Sydney, Self-Guided Audio Walk
Author: Steven Lewis
Narrator: Steven Lewis
Format: Original Recording
Length: 45 mins
Language: English
Release date: 09-16-11
Publisher: Taleist
Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 1 votes
Genres: Travel & Adventure, Guided Tours
Publisher's Summary:
No visit to Sydney is complete without a trip to the historic Rocks district on the harbour foreshore. And no visit to the Rocks would be complete without this self-guided audio walk. The Rocks is the enclave where European Sydney had its beginnings. Here the first convicts were ordered to build their huts and here they worked the sandstone that made Australia's first buildings. This self-guided walk will take you to the places they lived and tell you their stories. You'll even see where the marks of their chisels are still visible. Steven Lewis's light-hearted but informative commentary has kept this guide in the Amazon travel Top 10. You'll hear tales of kidnappings, murders, foul deeds and the vision that saved The Rocks from government bulldozers. The guide makes for good company as you take a hour-long stroll through the history of this young city and of Australia itself. You'll hear about the lives of the convicts, many of whom had never so much as seen the ocean before they became some of the world's best travelled people. The transportees emerged from the fetid cargo holds of their tiny sailing ships to a land already peopled by spear-carrying aborigines who viewed them with justifiable suspicion. Their settlement shared the harbour foreshore with flightless birds that stood as tall as a man; and animals that hoped rather than ran, carrying their young in pouches. These men and women lived stories we can only imagine through science fiction. The history of these first European settlers, Sydney and Australia is around every cobblestoned corner of the Rocks but the Rocks isn't a museum or a theme park; people live here, work here, and throng to the famous weekend markets. Nowhere in Australia offers such a tangible and unbroken connection between today's Australia and its European beginnings. This guide is your connection to Sydney's colourful and usual past.
Members Reviews:
the rocks sydney
i was born at 11 windmill street in 1934.dad was a wharfie and told me tales of the razor gangs in the rocks. i now live in tuscany and was thrilled to find this guide to my old childhood haunts . we spent many an illegal after hours in the bar of the lord nelson when six oclock closing was the law. this guide brought back many pleasant memories of the close knit community we called the point. millers point as we knew our part of the rocks.
terry hughes
Another visit to the Rocks
Thanks for this book, I thoroughly enjoyed reading it. Great research many gaps were filled with interesting facts and stories, next time I stay in Sydney I will be revisiting this location with renewed knowledge and will be definitely rereading this book so I can amaze my `Sydney-sider' friends with the wealth of knowledge I have gained about their city. (I'm a Queenslander)
Great way to spend time in Sydney
Fairly easy to follow walking tour. I downloaded it to my iPad and spent a couple of hours enjoying the sites. Very informative and not overly strenuous.
Great value
While informative and comprehensive, this self-guided walking tour is also humorous and entertaining. It's a bargain.
Not Worth Paying For
Hard to figure out why the author wrote so little about this top tourist area of Sydney. He covers the main points but provides just a few lines of minimalist information. OK a dollar is not much but in this case not worth it.