Born in a tent : how camping makes us Australian / Bill Garner
- Bib ID:
- 6187566
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Garner, Bill (William Vivian Nigel), author
- Description:
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- Sydney, NSW : NewSouth Publishing, 2013
- ©2013
- 288 pages : illustrations (some colour), facsimiles, photographs ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
- 9781742233345
- Summary:
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This book shows that the history of Australia can be told through a history of camping. Bill Garner reminds us that Australia was settled as a campsite - the nation was born in a tent. But while Europeans brought tents, they did not bring camping. Australia had been a camping place for millennia. And so it continued to be. For more than a hundred years, settlers - women as well as men - colonised the country by living under canvas. It changed them into a new sort of native Australian. It gave them a feel for the place, a wry can-do attitude, and a lasting taste for equality. And it led to a sense of belonging. Born in a Tent takes the story from the campfire to the gas bottle, from a tarp slung on saplings to polymer tents and aluminium poles. It reveals how deeply our camping holidays connect us to the land, to the past, and to one another.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Subject:
- Available From:
- http://newsouthpublishing.com/
- Copyright:
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- Photograph
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2013
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