ISBN |
0195536401 |
Title |
The Oxford book of Australian travel writing / edited by Ros Pesman, David Walker, Richard White. |
Portion of title |
Australian travel writing |
Publisher and/or associated date/s |
Melbourne ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1996. |
Description |
xxiv, 328 p. ; 23 cm. |
Note |
Includes index. |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 318-323). |
Contents |
Editors' acknowledgments -- Introduction. |
1. TO 1889: THE COLONIAL ABROAD : William a Beckett in Italy, 1854 ; Catherine Helen Spence in England, 1865 ; John Smith in Paris and Interlaken, 1876 ; Alfred Blannin in Dover and Paris, 1876 ; James Hingston in Asia, 1879 ; A. F. Morrison in Moscow, 1883 ; James Hogan in New York, 1887. |
2. 1890-1913: NATIONALISTS : Alfred Deakin in India, 1891 ; A.G. Stephens in the United Scates, 1892 ; G. E. Morrison in China, 1894 ; Louis Becke in che South Seas, 1890s ; George Wirch in Montevideo, 1895 ; Henry Lawson in Wellington, 1897 ; Randolph Bedford in England and Italy, 1901 Nathan Spielvogel in Germany, 1904 ; Alf Vincent in Camon, 1907 ; Mary Gaunt on the African Gold Coast, 1910 Ethel Turner in Holland, 1910 ; Ada Holman in England, 1912 ; Douglas Mawson in Antarctica, 1912. |
3. 1914-39: TRAVEL AND CULTURE : Hilda Rix Nicholas in Tangier, 1914 ; David Doull in Egypt, 1915 ; Martin Boyd shipboard and in England, 1915 ; Hector Dinning in France, 1916 ; Jack McLaren in Fiji, c.1921 ; J. B. Murray in the United States, 1926 ; Nina Murdoch in Nice, 1927 ; Eric Muspratt in India, c.1928 ; Ambrose Pratt in Malaya, c.1930 ; Katharine Susannah Prichard in the Soviet Union, 1933 ; Jack Hides in Papua, 1935 ; H. M. Moran in Abyssinia and Germany, 1936-37. |
4. 1940-69: THE WORLD EXPANDS : Frank Clune in the Dutch East Indies, 1940 ; Paul McGuire in Bali, 1940 ; Patrick White in Athens, 1945-46 ; Alan McCulloch in Italy, 1948 ; Peter Pinney in Istanbul, 1948 ; Jill Ker Conway shipboard and in Ceylon, 1949 ; Marie Byles in India, 1953 ; Christopher Koch in London, 1955 ; Malcolm Oram shipboard in the Persian Gulf, 1956 ; Shirley Deane in Spain, c. 1956 ; Alan Moorehead in Kenya and Tanganyika, 1959 ; Cynthia Nolan in Ethiopia, 1962 ; Dymphna Cusack in Albania, 1965 ; Nancy Phelan in Chile, 1969. |
5. 1970 TO PRESENT: TRAVELS IN POSTMODERNITY : Suzanne Falkiner in Central America, 1975 ; Gerard Lee in Indonesia, 1978 ; Clive James in Los Angeles, 1979 ; Gillian Bouras in Greece, 1980 ; Vincent Buckley in Ireland, 1981 ; Robyn Davidson in the United States, 1981 David Malouf in Italy, 1982 ; Germaine Greer in Brazil, 1984 ; Kate Jennings in New York, 1987 ; Peter Conrad in four places, 1990 ; Andrew Riemer in Austria and Hungary, 1991. |
6. RETURNING HOME : Nathan Spielvogel in the Mallee, 1904 ; Nina Murdoch in Melbourne, 1928 ; Gerard Lee at Bondi, 1988. |
Notes -- Select bibliography -- Sources and acknowledgments -- Index. |
Subjects |
Travelers' writings, Australian |
Voyages and travels |
Other Authors &/or Associated Persons |
Pesman, Ros |
Walker, David (David Robert), 1945- |
White, Richard, 1951- |
Call number |
910.408924 OXF |