The Blue Plateau: An Australian Pastoral - Softcover

Tredinnick, Mark

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1571313206 ISBN 13: 9781571313201

Verlag: MILKWEED ED, 2009

Inhaltsangabe

Located in the Blue Mountains southwest of Sydney, the Blue Plateau is a contrary collection of canyons and creeks, cow paddocks and eucalyptus forests, the first people and ranchers. This book reveals the plateau through its inhabitants: the Gundungurra people who were there first and still remain; the Maxwell family, who tried, but failed, to tame the land; the affable, impoverished, often drunken ranchers and firefighters; and the author himself, a poet trying to insinuate his citified self into a rugged landscape defined by drought, fire, and scarcity. Like the works of Peter Mathiessen, Barry Lopez, and William Least Heat-Moon, The Blue Plateau is a deep examination of place that transcends genre, incorporating poetry, people’s history, ecology, mythology, and memoir to reveal how humanity and nature intertwine to create a home. Elegiac and intimately composed, this vivid portrait of a rugged wilds expands readers’ sense of the place they call home.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: MILKWEED ED
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1571313206
• ISBN 13: 9781571313201
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 255
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
• Verantwortliche Person: Nicht verfügbar