The Pursuit of Wonder: How Australia's Landscape Was Explored, Nature Discovered and Tourism Unleashed by Julia Horne

The Pursuit of Wonder: How Australia's Landscape Was Explored, Nature Discovered and Tourism Unleashed by Julia Horne

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Book Type: SECONDHAND
ISBN: 9780522851663
Author: Julia Horne
Edition: 1st Edition
Publisher: The Miegunyah Press
Place: Melbourne VIC
Year: 2005
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 370 pages

Book Description

Secondhand. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Dust jacket has creasing at top edge and at spine. Interior and binding are excellent.

Imagine an Australia before the tour buses and well-trodden bushwalks - a wild and often daunting country that did not easily yield the secrets of its natural beauty.

Into this landscape, early Europeans ventured, 'discovering' nature at its most Romantic - sublime lakes, ancient mountain ranges, awe-inspiring caves and plunging waterfalls. The scenery that is now a familiar part of the Australian landscape - the Blue Mountains and the Jenolan Caves in New South Wales, Lake St Clair in Tasmania and Wilsons Promontory in Victoria, Mount Tamborine in Queensland and Mount Lofty in South Australia - stirred in these visitors a sense of awe.

Richly illustrated, The Pursuit of Wonder is a celebration of travel in its many rambling, striving, inspiring guises and a revelation of a natural world that we now take for granted. Rediscover the wonder. (book flap)

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