Landprints : reflections on place and landscape / George Seddon ; foreword by Sir Gustav Nossal
- Bib ID:
- 481570
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Seddon, George, 1927-2007
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- Table of contents
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- Edition:
- 1st pbk. ed.
- Description:
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- Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1998
- xviii, 254 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm.
- ISBN:
- 052165999X
- Full contents:
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- Machine derived contents note: Prelude
- Fugue for six voices
- Part I. Talking: The Language of Landscape: 1. The nature of nature
- 2. Words and weeds
- 3. Journeys through a landscape
- 4. On the road to Botany Bay
- 5. A Snowy River reader
- Part II. Perceiving: The Eyes and the Mind: 6. The evolution of perceptual attitudes
- 7. Eurocentrism and Australian science, some examples
- 8. Figures in the landscape
- 9. Dreaming up a rainforest
- 10. Home thoughts from abroad
- Part III. Locating: The Sense of Place: 11. Sense of place
- 12. The genius loci and the Australian landscape
- 13. Cuddlepie and other surrogates
- 14. Jet-set and parish pump
- 15. Placing the debate
- Part IV. Making: Creating Gardens and the Evolution of Styles: 16. The suburban garden in Australia
- 17. The Australian backyard
- 18. Gardening across Australia
- 19. The garden as paradise
- Part V. Analysing: Ideologies and Attitudes: 20. The rhetoric and ethics of the environmental protest movement
- 21. The perfectibility of Nature
- Part VI. Sharing and Caring: Ecological Frameworks: 22. Biological pollution
- 23. The lie of the land
- 24. Eating the future
- 25. Felling the 'Groves of Life'
- Coda: learning to be at home: 'and then came Venice'.
- Notes:
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- Originally published: Cambridge University Press, 1997.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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- Copyright:
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Until 2077 [Creator Date of Death + 70 Years]
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- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Presumed date of death of creator (latest date):
- 2007
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1998
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