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Born in a Tent.
Examining Australia's long and proud history of camping, this meditation follows the story from campfire to gas bottle and from a tarp slung on saplings to polymer tents and aluminum poles, revealing as it does so the ways in which camping connects individuals to the land, to the past, and to o...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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University of New South Wales Press,
2013.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Examining Australia's long and proud history of camping, this meditation follows the story from campfire to gas bottle and from a tarp slung on saplings to polymer tents and aluminum poles, revealing as it does so the ways in which camping connects individuals to the land, to the past, and to one another. Historian Bill Garner recalls that Australia was first settled as a campsite, and that though the Europeans brought tents, they hardly invented the concept of camping-the Aborigines had been camping for millennia prior. He examines how camping has helped nurture some of the most widely held v. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource |
| ISBN: | 1306141621 9781306141628 9781742246444 1742246443 |