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Botany Bay is renowned as the site of Captain Cook's first landing on the east coast of New Holland in 1770, infamous as the place chosen by the British as a dumping ground for convicts, and celebrated as the birthplace of Australia.
In this remarkable history, Maria Nugent takes her readers on a journey to find what lies behind, beneath and beyond these familiar associations. Drawing on stories, objects, images, memories and the landscape itself, she collects the threads of other pasts to weave a rich, compelling and often surprising account. Local meanings jostle with national mythologies, Aboriginal remembrance disturbs white forgetting, the natural environment struggles for survival amid the smokestacks. In the process, Botany Bay becomes a site for meditating on questions of history, myth, memory and politics in Australia.
Botany Bay: where histories meet explores the role both Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal history-making plays in creating and sustaining local and national communities.
In this remarkable history, Maria Nugent takes her readers on a journey to find what lies behind, beneath and beyond these familiar associations. Drawing on stories, objects, images, memories and the landscape itself, she collects the threads of other pasts to weave a rich, compelling and often surprising account. Local meanings jostle with national mythologies, Aboriginal remembrance disturbs white forgetting, the natural environment struggles for survival amid the smokestacks. In the process, Botany Bay becomes a site for meditating on questions of history, myth, memory and politics in Australia.
Botany Bay: where histories meet explores the role both Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal history-making plays in creating and sustaining local and national communities.
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This is the first exploration of one of the most significant sites in Australian history. It features 30 stunning black and white photographs of the people, landmarks, and moments that have affected Botany Bay. Botany Bay is renowned as the site of Captain Cook's first landing on newly discovered land, infamous as a dumping ground for British convicts, and celebrated as the birthplace of Australia. In this remarkable history, the reader is taken on a journey to find what lies behind these familiar associations. Drawing on stories, images, memories and the landscape itself, Maria Nugent weaves a rich, compelling, and often surprising account. "Botany Bay" is the first cultural history of one of the most significant Australian historical sites. From Cook's first landing to the present, it brings together the different histories of a nation.
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Maria Nugent is a research fellow in the School of Historical Studies at Monash University.
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- PublisherAllen & Unwin
- Publication date2005
- ISBN 10 1741145759
- ISBN 13 9781741145755
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages276
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