Part Title; Title Page; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; Conversion chart; Introduction; 1 Deep time and human history: The Sydney environment; 2 Encounters in Eora country; 3 The Camp, the canvas; 4 'Food from a common industry': Public farms and common lands; 5 Seeding and breeding; 6 Views from Flagstaff Hill; 7 Landscape artists: The Macquaries in Sydney; 8 The face of the country; 9 Nefarious geographies; 10 'A very bountiful place indeed': Women and country; 11 Soft colony; 12 Taking possession; 13 War on the Cumberland Plain; 14 Aftermath; Epilogue; Abbreviations; Notes
IllustrationsBibliography; Index
Summary
A groundbreaking new history of Sydney colony in its early years, from the sparkling harbour to the Cumberland Plain, from convicts to the city's political elite, from its geology to its economy
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 622-662) and index
