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'Some dozen years ago, I rented a caravan in Adelaide for our family. It has a solid, glittering roo-bar in front and a prison-like wire-grating on the windscreen, fragmenting our view of the wide landscape into little safe squares. When we picked up that impressive vehicle, the rental manager routinely cautioned us that we should by all means stay on sealed roads, and he asked, just to make sure, "Are you going anywhere north of Port Augusta?" - "Yes," we said, "we would like to travel up to Alice and the Red Centre." - "Stuart Highway," he said, "but watch out, there's everything different there, you can get lost in no time, and you never know..." - "Know what?" we were about to ask, but that seemed too much of a sophistry in exchange for the goodly advise given by this good man, who did not look like a philosopher . Though a philosopher of sorts he may have been, following the thought-lines laid out through centuries of coping with dark and ill-defined spaces.' (Author's abstract)
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Australia - the Space that Is Not One : A Literary Approximation
Subjects:
- Kangaroo 1819 single work poetry
- Australasia : A Poem Written for the Chancellor's Medal at the Cambridge Commencement, July, 1823 1823 single work poetry
- Where the Dead Men Lie 1891 single work poetry
- The Birdsville Track 1952 sequence poetry
- Bodalla : A Glimpse of England Amid Australian Hills 1872 single work poetry
- My Native Land 1841 single work poetry
- My Country 1908 single work poetry
- West of Alice 1951 single work poetry
- Noonday Axeman 1965 single work poetry
- Conditional Culture 1938 selected work criticism
- Unknown Land 1942 single work poetry
- Rivers and Mountains 1936 single work poetry
- Out Samford Way 1938 single work poetry
- Bush Scene 1975 single work poetry
- Ground Zero 1970 single work poetry
- Altjeringa 1955 single work poetry
- Recourse to the Wilderness 1969 single work poetry
- Landscape Full of Trees 1986 single work poetry
- Australia 1939 single work poetry
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