A country in mind : memoir with landscape /

Beudel, Saskia,

A country in mind : memoir with landscape / Saskia Beudel. - 1 online resource (xiv 362 pages) : illustrations, maps

Includes bibliographical references.

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Gorge; One place recalls another; Ground glass; Return to Redbank; Bullet in the palm; Waratah Bay; Darkroom; Two Mile; Blitz; Enforced transport; Central Mt Wedge; Not sufficiently mentally developed; Here and then not here; Easel; Buffel grass; Seeds; Honeymoon Gap; Dust; Desert notes; Road making; Continuum of landscapes; Notes; Bibliography; List of illustrations; Acknowledgments.

The chunk of land bordering Western Australia, South Australia, and Queensland is known as Namatjira. For most of us it is remote; geographically and metaphorically it is the heart of Australia. After a period of loss and much change, Saskia Beudel was inspired to begin long distance walking. Within 18 months, she had walked Australia's Snowy Mountains, twice along the South Coast of Tasmania, the MacDonnell Ranges west of Alice Springs, the Arnhem Land plateau in Kakadu, the Wollemi National Park in New South Wales, and in Ladakh in the Himalayas. Throughout the course of her journeys, she ex.

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Hiking--Ancedotes.--Australia
Aboriginal Australians--History.
Aboriginal Australians--Social life and customs.
Australiens (Aborigènes)--Histoire.
Australiens (Aborigènes)--Mœurs et coutumes.
TRAVEL--Australia & Oceania.
Aboriginal Australians.
Aboriginal Australians--Social life and customs.
Travel.


Australia--Description and travel.
Australie--Descriptions et voyages.
Australia.


Electronic books.
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