Collage: Recollections and Images of the University of Western Australia by Nicholas Hasluck and Tania Young

Book Description

Secondhand. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Dust jacket has some light creasing at top edge at at spine.

Collage is an informal, intimate portrait, through words and photographs, of the unique landscape and life of Western Australia’s oldest university campus.

Relocated in suburban Crawley, beside the Swan River, in 1930, the University of Western Australia has become widely appreciated by generations of students, staff and visitors, for its beauty and relaxed atmosphere.

Many well-known Australians began their adult life as students in the supportive, easy-going, yet stimulating environment of the Crawley campus. They include such names as Bob Hawke, Dorothy Hewett, Alexandra Hasluck, Nugget Coombs, Billy Snedden, Shirley Strickland, Randolph Stow, Fred Chaney, Rod Marsh, Geraldine Doogue, Bill Hartley, Sally Morgan and Robert Holmes à Court.

Nicholas Hasluck’s imaginative prose combines personal recollections with an account of contemporary university life, whilst Tania Young’s photographs are an impressionistic record of the detail and the vitality of the campus today. These complementary perspectives result in a book of fantastic insights, a work that captures the spirit of a place that is known to and admired by so many. (back cover)