AUSTRALIANA
The Road to Botany Bay, first published in 1987 and considered a classic in the field of cultural and historical geography, examines the poetic constitution of colonial society. Through a far-reaching exploration of Australia’s mapping, narrative description, early urbanism, and bush mythology, Paul Carter exposes the mythopoetic mechanisms of empire. A powerfully written account of the ways in which language, history, and geography influenced the territorial theater of nineteenth-century imperialism, the book is also a call to think, write, and live differently.
An account of how Australia originated in the acts of settlement, possession and dispossession by explorers who travelled, named and wrote. The author advances a notion of imperialism with relevance to other regions of the world.
- xxv, 384 p., [32] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 23 cm. #271124
- Bibliography: p. 353-375.
- Australia — History — To 1788
- Australia — History — 1788-1851
- (Some age tanning to pages.)