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Babes in the Bush
by Kim Torney
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- About the Book
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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 (230 x 152mm)
- Pages
- 270
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Wilderness Society Award
Congratulations to Sally Morgan whose book The Last Dance won the Wilderness Society’s 2013 Environment Award for Children’s Literature. Meg McKinlay and Kyle Hughes-Odgers were also shortlisted in the same category for Ten Tiny Things