A single tree : voices from the bush / compiled by Don Watson.
Publication details: Melbourne, Victoria : Hamish Hamilton Australia, 2016.Description: 416 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : portraits (some colour) ; 22 cmISBN:- 9781926428819 (hardback)
- 1926428811 (hardback)
- Watson, Samuel Wagan, 1972-
- Oodgeroo Noonuccal, 1920-1993
- Landscapes -- Australia
- Australians
- National characteristics, Australian
- Country life
- Manners and customs
- Forests and forestry -- Australia -- Literary collections
- Country life -- Australia
- Country life -- Australia -- Literary collections
- Australian history -- Literary collections
- Australian literature
- Australia -- Description and travel
- Australia
- Australia -- History
- Australia -- Social life and customs
- A820.8 23
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
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Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Non-Fiction | 820.8 SIN | Available | 065865 |
Includes bibliographical references.
A Single Tree assembles the raw material underpinning Don Watson's award-winning The Bush. These diverse and haunting voices span the four centuries since Europeans first set eyes on the continent. Each of these varied contributors - settlers, explorers, anthropologists, naturalists, stockmen, surveyors, itinerants, artists and writers- represents a particular place and time. This collection comprises diary extracts, memoirs, journals, letters, histories, poems and fiction, and follows the same loose themes of The Bush. The science of the landscape and climate, and the way we have perceived them. Our deep and sentimental connection to the land, and our equally deep ignorance and abuse of it. The heroic myths and legends. The enchantments. The bush as a formative and defining element in Australian culture, self-image and character. The flora and fauna, the waterways, the colours. The heroic, self-defining stories, the bizarre and terrible, and the ones lost in the deep silences. There are accounts of journeys, of work and recreation, of religious observance, of creation and destruction. Stories of uncanny events, peculiar and fantastic characters, deep ironies, and of land unlimited. And musings on what might be the future of the bush- as a unique environment, a food bowl, a mine, a wellspring of national identity ...From Dampier and Tasman to Tim Flannery and assorted contemporary farmers, environmentalists and grey nomads, these pieces represent a vast array of experiences, perspectives and knowledge. A Single Tree is an essential companion to its brilliant predecessor.