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Cyril Pearl (1906–1987)

Author of Australia's yesterdays: A look at our recent past

23+ Works 304 Members 3 Reviews

Works by Cyril Pearl

Australia's yesterdays: A look at our recent past (1974) 56 copies

Morrison of Peking (1967) 47 copies

Wild men of Sydney (1958) 44 copies

The girl with the swansdown seat (1955) 35 copies

The Dunera scandal : deported by mistake (1983) 28 copies

Dublin in Bloomtime (1969) 25 copies

So, you want to be an Australian (1959) 16 copies

Brilliant Dan Deniehy: a forgotten genius (1972) 8 copies

Five men vanished: The Bermagui mystery (1978) 6 copies

Beer, Glorious Beer: With Incidental Observations on Great Beer Myths, Pubs and Publicans, Barmaids and Breathalysers,… (1969) 6 copies

They're a Weird Mob/So, You Want to be an Autralian (1995) 6 copies

Rebel down under;: When the "Shenandoah" shook Melbourne, 1865 (1970) 4 copies

So, you want to buy a house ...and live in it! by Cyril Pearl, with illustrations by WEP 4 copies

Hardy Wilson and his Old Colonial Architecture (1970) 4 copies

Always morning : the life of Richard Henry "Orion" Horne 4 copies

Bawdy Burns 2 copies

The three lives of Gavan Duffy (1979) 2 copies

Spectral Visitants; or, Journal of a Fever, by A Convalescent 2 copies

ANZAC Newsreel : a picture history of Gallipoli (1963) 1 copy

Pantaloons And Antics - Or Doodling With A Hermes 1 copy

Victorian patchwork (1972) 1 copy

The Victorian era, 1850-1900 (1971) 1 copy

Anzac Newsreel 1 copy

Associated Works

Australian pavements : an urban anthology (1964) — Contributor — 3 copies

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Common Knowledge

Birthdate: 1906-04-11
Date of death: 1987-03-03
Gender: male
Nationality: Australia
Birthplace: Fitzroy, Victoria, Australia
Place of death: Bondi, New South Wales, Australia
Education: University of Melbourne
Scotch College
Hale College
Occupations: journalist
editor
biographer

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The girl with the swansdown seat by Cyril Pearl

A survey of the more scandalous courtesans of London in the heyday of Empire. It passed the time.

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DinadansFriend | Aug 20, 2019 |

The Dunera Scandal: Deported by mistake by Cyril Pearl

The miserable tale of the anti-Nazi refugees transported to Australia on the Dunera

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Derek_Law | Oct 4, 2012 |

Australia's Yesterdays by Cyril Pearl

Australia - History

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yarrafaye | Apr 23, 2020 |

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Australia's Greatest Books, as chosen by Geoffrey Dutton (1985) (1)

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Australia's Greatest Books

Wild men of Sydney

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Statistics

Works: 23
Also by: 1
Members: 304
Popularity: #77,406
Rating: ½ 3.7

Reviews: 3
ISBNs: 31

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