Landprints Reflections on Place and Landscape [Paperback]

From one of Australia's foremost thinkers, a uniquely broad-ranging 1997 collection of essays on landscape.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 landuse to perception and cultural and linguistic analysis. The landscapes of Australia are challenging in that our culture, essentially European in origin, is both immensely enriching yet, because generated in an environment vastly different from that of Australia, disabling. This requires of us a dual allegiance and competing loyalties and demands, often difficult to resolve.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 landuse to perception and cultural and linguistic analysis. The landscapes of Australia are challenging in that our culture, essentially European in origin, is both immensely enriching yet, because generated in an environment vastly different from that of Australia, disabling. This requires of us a dual allegiance and competing loyalties and demands, often difficult to resolve.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.Prelude; Fugue for six voices; Part I. Talking: The Language of Landscape: 1. The nature of nature; 2. Words and weeds; 3. Journeys through a landscape; 4. On the road to Botany Bay; 5. A Snowy River readerl£Á