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By Maria Nugent |
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Botany Bay is renowned as the site of Captain Cook's first landing on the east coast of New Holland in 1770, infamous as the place cosen by the British as a dumping ground for convicts, and celebrated as the birthplace of Australia.
In this remarkable history, Maria Nugent takes her readers on a
journey to find what lies behind, beneath and beyond these
familiar associations. Drawing on stories, objects, images,
memories and the landscape itself, she collects the threads of
other pasts to weave a rich, compelling and often surprising
account. Local meanings jostle with national mythologies,
Aboriginal remembrance disturbs white forgetting,
the natural environment struggles for
survival amid the smokestacks. In the process,
Soft
laminated cover 256 pages.Aprox.219mmx139mm
ISBN 9781741145755(2005)
RRP $39.95 |
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