Landprints: Reflections on Place and Landscape

Description

This is an extraordinary collection of essays about landscape. With a lively and engaging style, George Seddon considers everything from creating a garden in Fremantle, to locating ancient plants while wandering in a Far North Queensland rainforest to analysing the geological features on either side of the tram tracks in Collingwood. Yet while the book celebrates Australia, and covers many topics that seem familiar and everyday, it is challenging and provocative. Seddon is acutely aware of the moral and environmental aspects of history and is able to present local and regional history on a grand scale. Landprints reflects a lifetime devoted to questions about landscape: the ways we use and abuse the land, how Australian landscapes are different from European landscapes and how this land makes those who live on it uniquely, if ambiguously, Australian.

'... replete with original insights, wisdom, charm, humour and a delight to read ... It should be read by all students at the start of their geographic education, and kept thereafter as a desk book to be picked up and browsed when they tire of study and wish to learn instead'. Australian Geographical Studies 'Landprints is a delightful book ... it deserves as wide an audience as possible.' Intercultural Studies