| Seeking the Centre Contributor(s): Haynes, Roslynn D. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0521571111 ISBN-13: 9780521571111 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $85.49 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: January 1999 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Australian & Oceanian - Performing Arts | Film - History & Criticism - Science | Earth Sciences - Geology |
| Dewey: 551.415 |
| LCCN: 98-25121 |
| Physical Information: 0.88" H x 6.69" W x 9.61" (1.82 lbs) 364 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Australian - Cultural Region - Canadian - Cultural Region - Oceania |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 in the twentieth century by travelers, artists, novelists, photographers and film makers; its interest for ecotourism and as a spiritual experience. |