| ISBN |
9781926428215 |
| Author |
Watson, Don, 1949- (author.) |
| Title |
The bush : travels in the heart of Australia / Don Watson. |
| Publisher and/or associated date/s |
Melbourne, Victoria : Hamish Hamilton an imprint of Penguin Books, 2014. |
| ©2014 |
| Description |
x, 427 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour), maps, portraits (some colour) ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references [pages [392]-398] and index. |
| Summary |
Don Watson, on the sprawling, diverse, indefinable land we call bush. A milestone work of history, memoir and cultural critique. The bush: few terms are as powerful, and few as hard to define. Far from a conventional history of it, this is an idiosyncratic, highly original and insightful journey through Australian landscape, history and culture. Don Watson sees the bush in a way that neither romanticises nor decries it, evoking the heroic labour of the white farmers as well as the cost of that labour -- on the Aboriginal inhabitants, on the land, on the farmers themselves. Most powerfully, he probes our legends, from the axeman to the swagman to the grazier, looking deep into the stories we like to tell and those we've avoided telling, in history, literature, art, in the national myth and political debate. |
| Subjects |
Watson, Don, -- 1949- |
| Travellers -- Australia |
| Landscapes -- Australia |
| Australians |
| National characteristics, Australian |
| Country life -- Australia |
| Environmental degradation -- Australia |
| Australia -- Social life and customs |
| Australia -- Description and travel |
| Australia -- Rural conditions |
| Call number |
994 WAT |
