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Hybrid beauty : an architect, a missionary, and their improbable desires / Newell Platten.
Publication details: Mile End, South Australia : Wakefield Press, 2016.Description: xii, 291 pages : illustrations (some colour), colour maps, portraits (some colour), facsimiles ; 23 cmISBN:- 9781743053898
- Platten, Newell -- Family
- Platten, Isabel, 1905-2002
- Platten, Gilbert James, 1901-
- Platten, Isabel, 1905-
- Platten, Newell -- Family
- Platten, Newell -- Family
- Platten, Gilbert James, 1901-2000
- Platten, Newell
- Missionaries -- Biography
- Missionaries -- New Guinea -- Biography
- Architects -- Australia -- Biography
- Australian
- 720.92 23
- NA1605.P53 A3 2016
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Biography | 720.92 PLA | Available | 069471 |
Total reserves: 0
Includes bibliographical references (page 284-285) and index.
'One lives a life, then reflects upon it' - but rather than just write about himself as a successful architect in Adelaide, Newell Platten uses his story as preface to the adventures of his father Gil, finding compelling links in the guiding principles of their apparently very different lives.
