The Pursuit of Wonder: How Australia's Landscape Was Explored, Nature Discovered and Tourism Unleased - Couverture rigide

Horne, Julia

 
9780522851663: The Pursuit of Wonder: How Australia's Landscape Was Explored, Nature Discovered and Tourism Unleased
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ISBN 10 : 0522851665 ISBN 13 : 9780522851663
Editeur : Melbourne University Press, 2005

Synopsis

Imagine an Australia before the tour buses and well-trodden bushwalks - a wild and often daunting country that did not easily yield the secrets of its natural beauty. Into this landscape, early Europeans ventured, 'discovering' nature at its most Romantic - sublime lakes, ancient mountain ranges, awe-inspiring caves and plunging waterfalls. Scenery that is now a familiar part of the Australian landscape - the Blue Mountains and the Jenolan Caves in New South Wales, Lake St Clair in Tasmania and Wilsons Promontory in Victoria, Mount Tamborine in Queensland and Mount Lofty in South Australia - stirred in these visitors a sense of awe. Richly illustrated, ""The Pursuit of Wonder"" is a celebration of travel in its many rambling, striving, inspiring guises and a revelation of a natural world that we now take for granted. Rediscover the wonder.

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Éditeur
Melbourne University Press
Date d'édition
2005
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0522851665
ISBN 13 
9780522851663
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
370
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Personne responsable
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