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Extrapolating from their observations of the relationship between the Blue Mountains and the New South Wales coastline, David Foster and Martin Thomas have concluded that the sea and the mountains represent a 'fundamental divide in the mental geography of Australia'. The south-east Queensland coast presents a different experience of the relationship between sea and mountains. Here, from northern New South Wales to Noosa, north of Brisbane, the mountains, clearly visible from ocean, bay, and shore, are an intrinsic part of the coastal experience. This chapter looks at some writing about two of the coastal mountains with substantial national park areas: Lamington and Tamborine. It considers how writing about these areas reflects on the process of engagement with the natural world, the process by which settlers become dwellers, and the particular understanding of our place in the world that can evolve out of the experience of 'the frontiers between the wild and the cultivated'. (from The Littoral Zone)
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Hugging the Shore : The Green Mountains of South-East Queensland
Subjects:
- Half a Lifetime 1999 single work autobiography
- Mountain Rain 1936 single work poetry
- Double Rainbow : Poems 1989 single work poetry
- Birds : Poems 1962 selected work poetry
- Gold Coast Hinterland, Gold Coast, Queensland,
- Sunshine Coast Hinterland, South East Queensland, Queensland,
- Mount Tamborine, Tamborine area, Beaudesert - Tamborine - Rathdowney area, South East Queensland, Queensland,
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