The Road to Botany Bay: An Exploration of Landscape and History

The Road to Botany Bay: An Exploration of Landscape and History
ISBN-10
1452942757
ISBN-13
9781452942759
Category
Science
Pages
447
Language
English
Published
2013-11-30
Publisher
U of Minnesota Press
Author
Paul Carter

Description

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.

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