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Genre/Form: | History |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Carter, Paul, 1951- Road to Botany Bay. New York : Knopf, 1988 (OCoLC)609470076 |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Paul Carter |
ISBN: | 0394570359 9780394570358 |
OCLC Number: | 17550460 |
Description: | xxv, 384 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm |
Contents: | Introduction: A cake of portable soup -- 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. |
Responsibility: | Paul Carter. |
Abstract:
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.
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