[PDF.35qm] Seeking the Centre: The Australian Desert in Literature, Art and Film

Seeking the Centre: The Australian Desert in Literature, Art and Film

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 | #4782444 in Books |  Cambridge University Press |  1999-01-13 | Ingredients: Example Ingredients | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.72 x1.22 x6.85l, | File type: PDF | 364 pages

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||3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| Fascinating Insight into the Red Center|By choiceweb0pen0|Haynes has put a great deal of effort, energy, and insight into an incredible exhaustive exploration of what the Australian Desert means to Australians and how this attitude came about . Especially interesting to me are the sections on Australian Explorers and how their hardships, especially failures, have been transform| |"This brilliant book studies the Australian desert in that country's culture, past and present, from an extraordinarily comprehensive viewpoint that covers geology, ecology and history, as well as literature, film and painting (Aboriginal as well as European).

This is a book about the Australian desert and its central impact on Australian culture, from traditional Aboriginal art to Priscilla, Queen of the Desert. Starting with the Aboriginal understanding of the spiritual significance of the desert, it traces the attempts of the early colonists to conquer this alien space; the changing estimate of the inland explorers in fiction and art as heroes, failures, or psychological studies of obsession; the rediscovery of the desert i...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Seeking the Centre: The Australian Desert in Literature, Art and Film   |  Roslynn D. Haynes.Not only was the story interesting, engaging and relatable, it also teaches lessons.

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