This book is about the mythologies of land exploration, and about space and the colonial enterprise in particular. It is an innovative investigation of the presumptions, aesthetics and politics of Australian explorers' texts that shows that they are not the simple, unadorned observations their authors would have us believe. The book argues that contact with Aborigines are occasions of discursive contest. It scrutinizes and undermines the scientific and literary methodology of exploration. It will be a crucial text for readers in cultural, postcolonial and Australian studies.
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This book is about the mythologies of land exploration, and about space and the colonial enterprise in particular. It is an innovative investigation of the presumptions, aesthetics and politics of Australian explorers' texts that shows that they are not the simple, umadorned observations the authors would have us believe. The book argues that contact with Aborigines are occasions of discursive contest. It scrutinises and undermines the scientific and literary methodology of exploration. It will be a crucial text for readers in cultural studies, postcolonial studies and Australian studies.
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One of my favourite books when a child was The Children's Encyclopedia. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
picturesque codes, austral continent, heroic explorer, lost explorer, picturesque aesthetics, exploration party, exploration journals, terra nullius, exploration literature, terra australis, picturesque qualities, return gaze Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Royal Society, Eastern Australia, Three Expeditions, Two Expeditions, Charles Sturt, Mitchell Library, Southern Australia, State Library of New South Wales, Botany Bay, Ludwig Leichhardt, Ernest Giles, Fall of Cobaw, The Lost Explorer, Botanic Gardens, George Grey, South Australia, The Golden Lake, Arthur Louvain, Edward Eyre, Jacobus Coetzee, The Children's Encyclopedia, The Road, Henry Reynolds, Homi Bhabha, John Lort Stokes New!
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One of my favourite books when a child was The Children's Encyclopedia. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
picturesque codes, austral continent, heroic explorer, lost explorer, picturesque aesthetics, exploration party, exploration journals, terra nullius, exploration literature, terra australis, picturesque qualities, return gaze Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Royal Society, Eastern Australia, Three Expeditions, Two Expeditions, Charles Sturt, Mitchell Library, Southern Australia, State Library of New South Wales, Botany Bay, Ludwig Leichhardt, Ernest Giles, Fall of Cobaw, The Lost Explorer, Botanic Gardens, George Grey, South Australia, The Golden Lake, Arthur Louvain, Edward Eyre, Jacobus Coetzee, The Children's Encyclopedia, The Road, Henry Reynolds, Homi Bhabha, John Lort Stokes New!
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- Expedition Into Central Australia by Charles Sturt on 15 pages
- Road to Botany Bay by Paul Carter on 6 pages
- Three Essays: On Picturesque Beauty, On Picturesque Travel, and On Sketching by William Gilpin on 6 pages
- European Vision and the South Pacific, Second Edition by Professor Bernard Smith on 5 pages
- Australia Twice Traversed by Ernest Giles on 4 pages
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- Geopolitics: Re-Visioning World Politics (Frontiers) by John Agnew on page 31, page 48, and Back Matter
- Geopolitics: Re-Visioning World Politics (Frontiers of Human Geography, 1) by John Agnew on page 31, page 48, and Back Matter
- Unsettling the City: Urban Land and the Politics of Property by Nicholas Blomley in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Missionary Writing and Empire, 1800-1860 (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture) by Anna Johnston in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Geography Militant: Cultures of Exploration and Empire by Felix Driver on page 7, and Back Matter
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