Main entry:

Seddon, George, 1927-2007.

Title & Author:

Landprints : reflections on place and landscape / George Seddon ; foreword by Sir Gustav Nossal.

Edition:

1st pbk. ed.

Publication:

Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1998.

Description:

xviii, 254 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm

Notes:
Originally published: Cambridge University Press, 1997.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The nature of Nature -- Words and weeds -- Journeys through a landscape -- On The Road to Botany Bay -- A Snowy River reader -- The evolution of perceptual attitudes -- Eurocentrism and Australian science -- Figures in the landscape -- Dreaming up a rainforest -- Home thoughts from abroad -- Sense of place -- The Genius Loci and the Australian landscape -- Cuddlepie and other surrogates -- Jet-set and parish pump -- Placing the debate -- The suburban garden in Australia -- The Australian backyard -- Gardening across Australia -- The garden as Paradise -- The rhetoric and ethics of the environmental protest movement -- The perfectibility of Nature -- Biological pollution -- The lie of the land -- Eating the future -- Felling the "Groves of Life."
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Summary:

This is a series of essays about the ways in which landscape is constructed, managed and designed. The essays attempt a synthesis that ranges from the physical and biophysical through land use to perception and cultural and linguistic analysis. The landscapes of Australia are challenging in that its culture, essentially European in origin, is both immensely enriching yet, because generated in an environment vastly different from that of Australia, disabling. This requires a dual allegiance and competing loyalties and demands, often difficult to resolve.

ISBN:

052165999X (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780521659994 (pbk. ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Natural history.
Landscape architecture.
Natural history Australia.
Landscape architecture Australia.
Natural History
Sciences naturelles.
Architecture du paysage.
Sciences naturelles Australie.
Architecture du paysage Australie.
natural sciences.
Landscapes.
Landscape Australia.
Australia.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 205828
Call No.: QH45.2 .S434 1998
Status: Available