| Description |
xii, 219 pages, 26 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm |
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regular print |
| Contents |
Prelude: Beltana, South Australia, 1911 -- Part I. Mawson of the Antarctic: the Australasian Antarctic Expedition of 1911-14: 1. 'Life opens up to one': the call of the Antarctic frontier; 2. 'Weirdness and beauty': The Antarctic wilderness; 3. 'True scientists for everything': The technological frontier; 4. 'The dear old penguins': At home in Antarctic nature -- Interlude: From the Ice to the Inland -- Part II. Flynn of the Inland, 1900-32: 5. 'Bushborn conquerors over nature': The city, the bush, and the frontier ideal; 6. 'Australia is a weird land': Frontier anxieties; 7. 'Essential unity': The organic nation; 8. 'A mantle of safety': Domesticating the frontierFinale: 'A wild precision, a strict disorder' |
| Summary |
Compares two Australian folk heroes, Mawson and Flynn, and analyses the reasons for their popularity. It raises a number of topical issues including the role of Australia in the international management of Antarctica; Flynn's treatment of the Aboriginal people; and relationships between the country and the bush |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 196-213 |
| Notes |
Donation. ANU COOP 20120212 Brissenden collection, ANU Library |
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Signed by author 1 copy. ANU |
| Subject |
Flynn, John, 1880-1951.
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Mawson, Douglas, 1882-1958.
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Mawson, Douglas, 1882-1958 -- Travel -- Antarctica.
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Australian Inland Mission.
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| SUBJECT |
Australasian Antarctic Expedition (1911-1914) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50073914
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| Subject |
Frontier thesis.
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Missionaries -- Australia.
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Discoveries in geography.
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| SUBJECT |
Antarctic Regions -- Description and travel. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008114196
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Antarctic Regions -- Discovery and exploration.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85005493
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Australia -- Discovery and exploration.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008114308
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| LC no. |
2002491867 |
| ISBN |
0522850367 : |
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