The artificial horizon : imagining the Blue Mountains / Martin Thomas
- Bib ID:
- 3127716
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Thomas, Martin (Martin Edward), 1964-
- Online Version:
- Table of contents
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- Description:
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- Carlton, Vic., Australia : Melbourne University Press, 2004
- viii, 313 p., [20] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps, ports. ; 25 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0522851517
- Summary:
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The reader is taken on a journey through a compelling study of the culture, landscape and mythology of the Blue Mountains. For both Aboriginal people and their colonisers, the rugged landscape of the Blue Mountains has stood as an intriguing riddle and a stimulus to the imagination.
- Full contents:
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- Machine derived contents note: INTRODUCTION: The View from Jellore 1
- PASSAGE ONE: The False Horizon 19
- Overture 20
- 1 The Edge 24
- 2 Looking Out 30
- 3 Into the Blue 43
- PASSAGE Two: Shades of Blue 59
- Overture 60
- 1 Towards the Horizon 62
- 2 Von Gu6rard's Shadow 73
- 3 A Labyrinth 83
- PASSAGE THREE: Into the Labyrinth 99
- Overture 100
- 1 A Mountain Is not a Plateau 103
- 2 Line Without Limit 114
- 3 A Chimerical Establishment 122
- 4 Forgotten Journeys 126
- 5 Reflection and Projection 134
- PASSAGE FOUR: The Echo and the Sound Itself 147
- Overture 148
- 1 Morphic Echoes, Stony Silences 150
- 2 Homage to Catalina 177
- PASSAGE FIVE: Vere Gordon Childe and the Abyss of Time 209
- Overture 210
- 1 Setting up the Leap 212
- 2 Who was Gordon Childe? 235
- 3 The Descent of Man 251
- CODA 273
- 1 Two Caves 274
- 2 Looking Back 279
- 3 Cock and Bull Story 287
- Notes 291
- Illustrations 298
- Select Bibliography 301
- Index 308.
- Notes:
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- Includes index.
- First published: 2003.
- Bibliography: p. 301-307.
- Awards:
- 2004 New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards Winner.
- Subject:
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- Gundungurra / Gundungura /Gandangara people (S60) (NSW SI56-09)
- Stories and motifs - Rock outcrops
- Settlement and contacts - Explorers
- History - Genealogy and family history
- Culture - Relationship to place
- Settlement and contacts
- Dharug / Daruk / Darug people (S64) (NSW SI56-05)
- Blue Mountains (N.S.W) -- Folklore
- Blue Mountains (N.S.W.) -- History
- Katoomba (Blue Mountains NSW SI56-05)
- Blue Mountains (W Sydney NSW SI56-05)
- Copyright:
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2004
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