This is an account of Australia - the people, the bush, the desert, the cities - as it was when the country was allowed to be itself, compared with what it has become. Its story is accompanied by numerous images of the Australian landscape, taken from the collections of the National Gallery of Australia. The settlement of Australia coincided with the invention of photography, and Conrad's word-pictures of the hot, aromatic, cicada-loud landscape are woven around 200 pictures.
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Verlagsort
Zielgruppe
Für höhere Schule und Studium
Illustrationen
205 illustrations, 29 in colour
Maße
Höhe: 268 mm
Breite: 199 mm
Dicke: 30 mm
Gewicht
ISBN-13
978-0-500-51141-1 (9780500511411)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
A family album (personal relationships to photographs); earthworks (documenting the land); which gods? (Australia's Aboriginal and colonial heritage); tree people (the "civilizing" of the bush); spiritual homes (structures); national characters (what personifies an Aussie?); artworks (creativity); remaking the map (Australia's present and future).
