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A study of how the frontier became etched in the Australian imagination in the early-20th century in the image of folk heroes. It focuses on the mythology surrounding two such heroes - Douglas Mawson, legendary Antarctic explorer, and John Flynn, founder of the outback Flying Doctor Service.
The Ice and the Inland
Mawson, Flynn and the Myth of the Frontier
$74.54
- Hardcover
264 pages
- Release Date
15 October 2002
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Summary
The frontier mythology of the early twentieth-century is epitomised in the stories of these two extraordinary-and very different-men.An elegant, original and very well written book, luminous with meaning, full of superb cameos and suggestive arguments … the central figures are both charismatic, articulate and iconic- they are central to any estimation of twentieth-century Australian cultural and environmental history.-Dr Tom Griffiths, Australian National UniversityThis is a path-breaking wor…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780522850369 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0522850367 |
| Author: | Brigid Hains |
| Publisher: | Melbourne University Press |
| Imprint: | Melbourne University Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 264 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 15 October 2002 |
| Weight: | 433g |
| Dimensions: | 246mm x 161mm x 15mm |
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About The Author
Brigid Hains
Brigid Hains is a freelance historian and writer.
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