Landprints

Reflections on Place and Landscape

George Seddon (University of Western Australia, Perth), Gustav Nossal

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English

Cambridge University Pres
28 September 1998

History; Physical geography & topography; The environment

This is an extraordinary collection of essays about landscape. With a lively and engaging style, George Seddon considers everything from creating a garden in Fremantle, to locating ancient plants while wandering in a Far North Queensland rainforest to analysing the geological features on either side of the tram tracks in Collingwood. Yet while the book celebrates Australia, and covers many topics that seem familiar and everyday, it is challenging and provocative. Seddon is acutely aware of the moral and environmental aspects of history and is able to present local and regional history on a grand scale. Landprints reflects a lifetime devoted to questions about landscape: the ways we use and abuse the land, how Australian landscapes are different from European landscapes and how this land makes those who live on it uniquely, if ambiguously, Australian.

By: George Seddon (University of Western Australia Perth)
Foreword by: Gustav Nossal
Imprint: Cambridge University Pres
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 244mm, Width: 170mm, Spine: 15mm
Weight: 470g
ISBN: 9780521659994
ISBN 10: 052165999X
Pages: 290
Publication Date: 28 September 1998
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Other merchandise
Publisher's Status: Active

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'.

Reviews for Landprints: Reflections on Place and Landscape

'... replete with original insights, wisdom, charm, humour and a delight to read ... It should be read by all students at the start of their geographic education, and kept thereafter as a desk book to be picked up and browsed when they tire of study and wish to learn instead'. Australian Geographical Studies 'Landprints is a delightful book ... it deserves as wide an audience as possible.' Intercultural Studies