Born in a tent : how camping makes us Australian / Bill Garner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Garner, Bill (William Vivian Nigel)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Camping--Australia--History.

Camping.

Outdoor recreation--Australia--History.

Outdoor recreation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (289 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Sydney : NewSouth Publishing, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Examining Australia's long and proud history of camping, this meditation follows the story from campfire to gas bottle and from a tarp slung on saplings to polymer tents and aluminum poles, revealing as it does so the ways in which camping connects individuals to the land, to the past, and to one another. Historian Bill Garner recalls that Australia was first settled as a campsite, and that though the Europeans brought tents, they hardly invented the concept of camping-the Aborigines had been camping for millennia prior. He

Contents:

Front Cover; About the Author; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; ONE: A Campers' History of Australia; TWO: No Holiday; THREE: Trips; FOUR: First home; FIVE: Streets of Tents; SIX: Camp Fire Democracy; SEVEN: Two Years in a Tent; EIGHT: Camp Work; NINE: Utopians; TEN: Training Camps; ELEVEN: City Campers; TWELVE: Born in a Tent; THIRTEEN: The Art of Camping; FOURTEEN: Pilgrims; FIFTEEN: The National Camp; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Picture credits; Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed October 11, 2013).

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9781742246444

1742246443

OCLC:

859232212