Isbn: 9780701804411 - land that waited (4 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Good. Light wear to boards. Content is clean with minor age tone. DJ with some edge wear and creasing.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. c.144pp. (unnumbered). c.23 x 25cm (landscape). Consist largely of 115 black and white illustrations most full page, some double page. Some accompanying text. Description and commentary on the illustrations at the end. Illustrated end papers. Hard cover in dust jacket. A very good clean copy. Illustrations drawn from a wide range of sources to depict the early years of colonial Australia.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 2nd Edition. a vivid example of a changing approach to the history of Australia as the First Inhabitants were granted full citizenship rights upon referendum conducted in 1967. A well illustrated volume presents brief history of exploration and development of so-called Terra Nullius, 1788-c.1872, provides interesting information on very roots of the Australian identity while indigenous population unstoppable resistance towards colonization had been subtly omitted, substituted with sole outbursts triggered by culturally-insensitive particular explorers. Alison Forbes has won nearly every award the Australian book design and publishing industry has to offer. Some of the awards she has won include the Award of Honour from the Australian Book Publishers Association"for her continued and outstanding contribution to Australian book design and production," the 1968 Transfield Design Award for The Land that Waited with Max Harris, the book of the Year in 1974-75 from the Australian Publishers Association for John Cotton's Birds of the Port Phillip District of NSW, 1843-1848 as well as awards from the Australian Commercial and Industrial Artists Association (ACIAA).…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. 1st Edition. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges. Previous owner has annotated in pen several pages. Dust jacket is intact but has significant tear to right edge front cover and back covers. Now enclosed in dust jacket protector.This book attempts to capture the changing historical mood of the Australian colonial experience. It is not a potted history of Australia, but rather some kind of theory of Australian history, a theory which is not only confirmed by what ordinary people wrote about their experience of Australia in colonial days but also by the way artists looked at the country. Based on the 1967 ABC documentary film.…