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The road to Botany Bay : an exploration of landscape and history / Paul Carter.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Carter, Paul, 1951-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cultural geography--Australia.
- Cultural geography.
- Australia--History--1788-1851.
- Australia.
- Australia--History--To 1788.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxv, 384 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, maps
- Edition:
- 1st University of Minnesota Press ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This title, first published in 1987 and considered a classic in the field of cultural and historical geography, examines the poetic constitution of colonial society. Through a far-reaching exploration of Australia's mapping, narrative description, early urbanism, and bush mythology, this book exposes the mytho-poetic mechanisms of empire. A powerfully written account of the ways in which language, history, and geography influenced the territorial theatre of nineteenth-century imperialism, the book is also a call to think, write, and live differently.
- Contents:
- An outline of names
- An airy barrier
- The charm of novelty
- Triangles of life
- Debatable land
- A thorny passage
- Elysiums for gentlemen
- A more pleasing prospect
- Intimate charm
- The road to Botany Bay
- A wandering state.
- Notes:
- Originally published: London ; Boston : Faber and Faber, 1987.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-4529-4690-6
- 0-8166-7375-6
- OCLC:
- 698116873
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