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Writing the country: the continuing exploration of the interior.(History)(Book Review)
IT WAS ONLY in the first half of the twentieth century that the more remote regions of Central Australia became a significant object of interest to the littoral-hugging public. It is astonishing, when considering the current growth in eco-tourism and the thousands of four-wheel-drives that annually traverse the continent from north to south, to reflect upon the dramatic changes in cultural attitudes towards remote Australia that have occurred in the last century. Until the publication in the 1930s of Francis Ratcliffe's Flying Fox and Drifting Sand and H.H. Finlayson's The Red Centre: Man and Beast in the Heart of Australia very little had been written about Central ...
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