Something Rich and Strange: Sea Changes, Beaches and the Littoral in The Antipodes Tapa blanda - 2009

Wakefield Press, 2009. Softcover. AS NEW COPY!. AUSTRALIANA Beaches are places of contact, play, confrontation and friction: first comers always arrive on a beach. After Europeans moved into the Antipodes, the coast was the first frontier to be defined. Flinders' circumnavigation in 1802 had mapped 'Australia', revealing the land as 'girt by sea', as the national anthem continues to remind us. All kinds of ideas about the coast, beaches, sea changes, holiday places and islands swirl and eddy in this unique collection of writing. Beaches are places of contact, play, confrontation and friction: first comers always arrive on a beach. After Europeans moved into the Antipodes, the coast was the first frontier to be defined. Flinders' circumnavigation in 1802 had mapped 'Australia', revealing the land as 'girt by sea', as the national anthem continues to remind us320 p. : ill., maps, ports. ; 24 cm. #240123 Elizabeth's Bookshops have been one of Australia's premier independent book dealers since 1973.… Leer más

Kent Town, SA; Wakefield Press; 2009. paperback in very good condition. 320 pages

Wakefield Press, 2009. First Edition. Softcover. As New/No Dust Jacket. Size: Octavo (standard book size). Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. No foxing in this copy. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. Multiple copies available this title. Quantity Available: 2. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: History; Australia; Exploration. ISBN: . ISBN/EAN: 9781862548701. All our pictures shown here are of the actual item, not stock photos. Inventory No: 27050. . 9781862548701