The Bush - Couverture souple

Watson, Don

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1926428692 ISBN 13 : 9781926428697

Editeur : Hamish Hamilton, 2017

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Most Australians live in cities and cling to the coastal fringe, yet our sense of what an Australian is - or should be - is drawn from the vast and varied inland called the bush. But what do we mean by 'the bush', and how has it shaped us?Starting with his forebears' battle to drive back nature and eke a living from the land, Don Watson explores the bush as it was and as it now is: the triumphs and the ruination, the commonplace and the bizarre, the stories we like to tell about ourselves and the national character, and those we don't. Via mountain ash and mallee, the birds and the beasts, slaughter, fire, flood and drought, swagmen, sheep and their shepherds, the strange and the familiar, the tragedies and the follies, the crimes and the myths and the hope - here is a journey that only Australia's leading writer of non-fiction could take us on.At once magisterial in scope and alive with telling, wry detail, The Bush lets us see Australia's landscape and its inhabitants afresh, examining what we have made, what we have destroyed, and what we have become in the process.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Hamish Hamilton
• Date d'édition: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1926428692
• ISBN 13: 9781926428697
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 427
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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