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. 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 ...
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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. 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.
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Add this copy of The Pursuit of Wonder. How Australia's Landscape Was to cart. $24.41, very good condition, Sold by Lawrence Jones rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Nobby Beach, QLD, AUSTRALIA, published 2005 by The Miegunyah Press.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. 4to. vii, 351pp, index, references, notes, num ills. Or black cloth in jacket. Near new. How travel ad tourism developed in Australia from the explorers through 19th century travel and on to the present.
Add this copy of The Pursuit of Wonder to cart. $31.70, like new condition, Sold by Marlowes Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Ferny Hills, Brisbane, QLD, AUSTRALIA, published 2005 by The Miegunyah Press.
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