The Diminishing Paradise: Changing Literary Perceptions of Australia

Aborigines Account Angus and Robertson annalists attempts attitudes Australia Felix Australian environment Australian experience Australian nature authors Barron Field become Botany Bay bush Callander century character cited parenthetically civilisation coast Dampier described desert Diemen's Land diminishing paradise Discovery dreams edition Ellen Emigrant England English image English writers example Expeditions explorers Eyre's fact fantasy Fringe of Leaves future references Gulliver's Travels History Holland human image of Australia imagination interior interpret John Journal Lake Alexandrina landscape Laura literary London Melbourne Mitchell Mitchell's Moncrieff myths narrative native noble noble savage novel numbers Oxford University Press party Patrick White poem Port Jackson portrayed present Purgatory Quiros reader region Roxburgh savage sense Settlers and Convicts south land South Wales southern continent spirit Sturt and Eyre survival Swift Sydney Tench Terra Australis Thomas Thomas Mitchell tradition Van Diemen's Land vision vol.I vols Voss Voyage Watkin Tench Watling wild William William Dampier women