Reading the Garden: The Settlement of Australia by Katie Holmes, Susan K Martin and Kylie Mirmohamadi

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Secondhand. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges. Tiny mark on title page. Dent to tail back cover. Remnant mark to tail foredge.

Whether a small plot in the backyard of an inner-urban home or a capital city's sprawling botanic garden, Australians have long desired a patch of dirt to plough or enjoy.

Reading the Garden explores our deep affection for gardens and gardening, illuminating their numerous meanings and uses from European settlement to the late twentieth century.

In Reading the Garden, new ways of seeing Australian history and culture, memory and belonging, domestication and civilisation, nationalism and identity are woven into a compelling narrative around gardens and landscapes. (back cover)