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  E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/17550460 Title: The road to Botany Bay : an exploration of landscape and history Author: Paul Carter Publisher: New York : Knopf, 1988. ISBN/ISSN: 0394570359 9780394570358 OCLC:17550460

  
  

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The road to Botany Bay : an exploration of landscape and history

Author:	Paul Carter
Publisher:	New York : Knopf, 1988.
Edition/Format:	Print book : English : 1st American edView all editions and formats
Summary:	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.  Read more...
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Subjects	Australia -- History -- To 1788. Australia -- History -- 1788-1851. Australie -- Histoire -- Jusqu'à 1788. View all subjects
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