Babes in the Bush

by Kim Torney

Price $35.00

About the Book

A powerful exploration of the making of a uniquely Australian image — the evocative and enduring image of the child lost in the Bush. Along with drought, fire and flood, the stories of children lost in the bush became central to the Australian colonial experience (even though there were any number of more likely, and more gruesome ways a child could come to harm). This cultural legacy remains to this day and is one of the few experiences contemporary Australians share with their colonial past. Babes in the Bush provides intriguing insights into the domestic lives of Australia’s settlers and our changing attitudes towards children and childhood, as well as an illuminating examination of the relationship between Europeans and Aborigines and the power of cross-cultural attitudes towards Indigenous peoples in Britain and its colonies.

Categories

Current Affairs, Culture & Social History, History

Publication Year

2005

Publisher

Fremantle Press

ISBN11

1 92073 135 0

ISBN13

9 781920 731359

HB/PB

Paperback

Format

C Format (228mm x 158mm)

Pages

270

Other Editions

Ebook

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