The Blue Plateau: An Australian Pastoral
by Mark Tredinnick
- Used
- good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Good
- ISBN 10
- 1571313206
- ISBN 13
- 9781571313201
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About This Item
Located in the Blue Mountains southwest of Sydney, the Blue Plateau is a contrary collection of canyons and creeks, cow paddocks and eucalyptus forests, the first people and ranchers. This book reveals the plateau through its inhabitants: the Gundungurra people who were there first and still remain; the Maxwell family, who tried, but failed, to tame the land; the affable, impoverished, often drunken ranchers and firefighters; and the author himself, a poet trying to insinuate his citified self into a rugged landscape defined by drought, fire, and scarcity. Like the works of Peter Mathiessen, Barry Lopez, and William Least Heat-Moon, The Blue Plateau is a deep examination of place that transcends genre, incorporating poetry, peoples history, ecology, mythology, and memoir to reveal how humanity and nature intertwine to create a home. Elegiac and intimately composed, this vivid portrait of a rugged wilds expands readers sense of the place they call home.
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- Bookseller
- The Vespiary Book Restoration & Bindery (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- SQ5399947
- Title
- The Blue Plateau: An Australian Pastoral
- Author
- Mark Tredinnick
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 1571313206
- ISBN 13
- 9781571313201
- Publisher
- Milkweed Editions
- Place of Publication
- Usa
- Date Published
- 2009-10
- Keywords
- australia, indigenous, ecology, community
- Bookseller catalogs
- Adventure/Exploration;
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