A single tree : voices from the bush / compiled by Don Watson.
Material type: TextPublisher: [Melbourne, Victoria] : Hamish Hamilton, an imprint of Penguin Books, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Description: 416 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : portraits (some colour) ; 22 cmContent type:- text
- still image
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781926428819 (hardback)
Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Non-Fiction | Davis (Central) Library Non-Fiction | Non-Fiction | 994 SIN | Available | T00800372 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
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. Men in awe of the landscape or cursing it; aspiring to subdue and exploit it or finding themselves defeated by it. Women reflecting on the land's harshness and beauty, on the strangeness of their lives, their pleasures and miseries, the character and behaviour of the men. Europeans writing about indigenous Australians, sometimes with intelligent sympathy and curiosity but often with contempt, and often describing acts of startling brutality.
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.
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.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Introduction (p. 1)
- James Armour (p. 7)
- Arthur Ashwin (p. 10)
- Thea Astley (p. 16)
- Murray Bail (p. 19)
- John Bailey (p. 21)
- Sidney J. Baker (p. 23)
- Joseph Banks (p. 25)
- John Batman (p. 26)
- Barbara Baynton (p. 28)
- Charles Bean (p. 32)
- George Bennett (p. 34)
- Judith Beveridge (p. 35)
- Tony Birch (p. 37)
- Herbert S. Bloxsome (p. 40)
- Barcroft Boake (p. 42)
- James Boyce (p. 44)
- Martin Boyd (p. 45)
- E J. Brady (p. 46)
- George Brown (Bruni) (p. 48)
- Mary Bundock (p. 49)
- Caleb Burchett (p. 51)
- David Cameron (p. 53)
- David Campbell (p. 54)
- David W. Carnegie (p. 55)
- Paul Carter (p. 57)
- Reverend Coles Child (p. 58)
- Frank Clarke (p. 59)
- Marcus Clarke (p. 63)
- L. C. Cook (p. 65)
- Lyle Courtney (p. 68)
- P. J. F. Coutts (p. 70)
- Chris Wallace Crabbe (p. 72)
- Emily Caroline Creaghe (p. 73)
- Bernard Cronin (p. 76)
- Robyn Davidson (p. 78)
- Arthur Hoey Davis (Steele Rudd) (p. 81)
- James Dawson (p. 86)
- R. L. Dawson (p. 87)
- David Denholm (p. 90)
- Arthur Dewhurst (p. 92)
- George Dunderdale (p. 94)
- Mary Durack (p. 99)
- Chester Eagle (p. 103)
- John F. Edey (p. 105)
- Martin Edmond (p. 107)
- Ray Ericksen (p. 111)
- George Essex Evans (p. 112)
- John Evans (p. 114)
- George Everard (p. 117)
- Edward John Eyre (p. 122)
- Albert Facey (p. 126)
- G. K. E. Fairholme (p. 129)
- Elizabeth Farrelly (p. 131)
- George Farwell (p. 134)
- James Fenton (p. 136)
- John Fenwick (p. 138)
- Tim Flannery (p. 139)
- Mary Fullerton (p. 143)
- Lyn Cuthbert Furnell (p. 145)
- Joseph Furphy (Tom Collins) (p. 146)
- Bill Gammage (p. 153)
- Bill Garner (p. 155)
- Karen George (p. 158)
- Mary Gilmore (p. 160)
- Lucy Gray (p. 160)
- Tom Griffiths (p. 161)
- Mrs Aeneas (Jeannie) Gunn (p. 165)
- Charles Harpur (p. 165)
- Alexander Harris (p. 167)
- Joseph Hawdon (p. 171)
- Elizabeth Hawkins (p. 172)
- Arthur Henry (p. 174)
- Mona Henry (p. 175)
- Herald Sun (p. 180)
- Barry Hill (p. 182)
- Ernestine Hill (p. 185)
- Philip Hodgins (p. 188)
- Clement Hodgkinson (p. 190)
- Keith C. Hofmaier (p. 191)
- W.H.C. Holmes (p. 192)
- Ion Idriess (p. 196)
- Yallum Jackey (p. 198)
- Dianne Johnson (p. 200)
- Murray Johnson (p. 201)
- Frederic Wood Jones (p. 202)
- Paul Kane (p. 204)
- Thomas Keneally (p. 205)
- A. S. Kenyon (p. 206)
- A. S. Kenyon (p. 207)
- Margaret Kiddle (p. 209)
- John Kinsella (p. 211)
- D. H. Lawrence (p. 213)
- Henry Lawson (p. 219)
- Timothy Lee (p. 221)
- Ludwig Leichhardt (p. 224)
- Bert Leoni and Tip Byrne (p. 225)
- Gladys Linke (p. 226)
- Tim Low (p. 228)
- James Stuart MacDonald (p. 231)
- Roger McDonald (p. 232)
- Ann McGrath (p. 234)
- Dennis McIntosh (p. 238)
- Dorothy Maguire (p. 241)
- David Malouf (p. 244)
- Alan Mayne (p. 244)
- Merbein District Historical Society Inc. (p. 247)
- Louisa Anne Meredith (p. 249)
- F.J. Meyrick (p. 253)
- Mildura Settler's Handbook (p. 254)
- Edward Millen (p. 255)
- David Millsom (p. 256)
- Thomas Livingstone Mitchell (p. 259)
- Georgiana Molloy (p. 263)
- Frank Moorhouse (p. 265)
- Andrew Muir (p. 268)
- Sarah Murgatroyd and William Wills (p. 270)
- Justin Murphy and Peter Andrews (p. 271)
- Les Murray (p. 275)
- Francis Myers (p. 277)
- John Shaw Neilson (p. 278)
- Oodgeroo Noonuccal (p. 279)
- John Oxley (p. 284)
- Allan Cunningham (p. 286)
- Banjo Paterson (p. 287)
- Brian Penton (p. 290)
- Xavier Pons (p. 294)
- Ida Poore (p. 295)
- Rosa Praed (p. 299)
- Katharine Susannah Prichard (p. 300)
- Stephen J. Pyne (p. 302)
- Ravenshoe Writers Group (p. 306)
- Henry Reynolds (p. 308)
- Richmond River Herald (p. 309)
- John Robertson (p. 310)
- George Augustus Robinson (p. 311)
- Eric Rolls (p. 316)
- Deborah Rose (p. 319)
- W E. Roth (p. 322)
- Brendan Ryan (p. 327)
- Oscar de Satge (p. 328)
- George Seddon (p. 331)
- Kenneth Slessor (p. 333)
- South Australian Government (p. 334)
- Robert H. Stainthorpe (p. 336)
- W. E.H. Stanner (p. 337)
- Douglas Stewart (p. 341)
- Randolph Stow (p. 341)
- T. G. H. Strehlow (p. 342)
- Charles Sturt (p. 347)
- Fraser Sutherland (p. 349)
- Abel Tasman (p. 350)
- Thomas Griffith Taylor (p. 353)
- Colin Thiele (p. 355)
- Daryl Tonkin (p. 359)
- David Trigger (p. 363)
- James Hamilton Twigg (p. 364)
- Roger Underwood (p. 366)
- John Vader (p. 370)
- Raymond A. Walls (p. 372)
- Shirley Walker (p. 375)
- Samuel Wagan Watson (p. 378)
- The Weekly Times (p. 379)
- Jackey White (p. 380)
- Neville White (p. 382)
- Patrick White (p. 383)
- Korah Wills (p. 386)
- Trevor Winter (p. 391)
- Tim Winton (p. 393)
- Judith Wright (p. 399)
- Tony Wright (p. 400)
- Notes on Contributors (p. 403)
- Acknowledgements (p. 414)