Road to Botany Bay;an exploration of landscape and history

cloth, dust jacket, xxv, 384 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates illustrations."This volume seeks the origins of Australian civilization by examining the journals, letters home, unfinished maps and other narratives by its explorers, soldiers and emigrants, including tall tales and accounts of escapes by convicts who helped settle the vast territory. The author devotes much attention to the motives of explorers' selection of geographical names, and reflects upon the role of boundaries and grids to distinguish towns from bush and to balance nearness with distance horizontality that developed into Australia's ubiquitous suburbs. He evokes in philosophical and poetic terms the loneliness of the early travelers crossing endless forests, plains and deserts, and the welcome of a candle in the window, celebrated in Australian literature. This book's narrative draws on many disciplines to offer insights into the history of Australian settlement."

Product Info

ISBN: 0394570359

ISBN-13: 9780394570358

Publisher: Knopf

Year: 1988

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

First Edition

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HarryEBagleyBooks

Address: P.O. Box 691 Fredericton, New Brunswick

Website: https://www.bagbooks.com

Country: Canada