Uluru, or Ayre's Rock, is the centre, a sacred place. Why is it such an icon? It is a special place above all to Aborigines and also to explorers, anthropologists, scientists, geologists and tourists from around the world. This travel book and cultural guide takes the reader to Uluru through the landscape, the history of the Aborigines and explorers, and the literature of the centre. It offers another experience of the rock for the traveller who wants to know and do more than just climb the rock. The text is illustrated with maps and photographs, including the first photograph ever taken of the rock, never before published.
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Well written and difficult to put down,
By Nom de plume "nom de plume" (saginaw, michigan) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Rock: Travelling to Uluru (Paperback)
Sometimes I need to stop reading a book for the night but decide to read one more chapter. Then I find myself sliding into the next chapter, and the next, etc. This is one of those books. The Rock is well written and it covers the subject. On occasion it does wax purple as though the author prefers poetry to prose and the theme of the apologetic white man who tries to defend and bond with the aboriginal has become hackneyed, especially given the attitudes of the aboriginals themselves toward other cultures and toward wild animals. Yet this attitude and no other seems to satisfy the demands of today's marketplace.
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