Geography
Alexandra Walsham: The Reformation of the Landscape
A remarkable new look at familiar historical themes
Wilfrid Prest
The Reformation of the Landscape: Religion, Identity, and Memory in Early Modern Britain and Ireland
by Alexandra Walsham
Oxford University Press, $65 hb, 653 pp, 9780199243556
Austr ... More
Bill Gammage: The Biggest Estate on Earth
Masters of the blaze
Geoffrey Blainey
The Biggest Estate on Earth: How Aborigines Made Australia
by Bill Gammage
Allen & Unwin, $49.99 hb, 464 pp, 9781742377483
This bold book, with its lucid prose and vivid illustrations, will be discussed for ... More
Patricia Sumerling: The Adelaide Park Lands
An oft-overlooked treasure
Bernard Whimpress
The Adelaide Park Lands: A Social History
by Patricia Sumerling
Wakefield Press, $49.95 hb, 302 pp, 9781862549142
Novelist Janette Turner Hospital’s recent essay in praise of New York’s Central Park ... More
Delia Falconer: Sydney
‘Glitz and rot’
Rhyll McMaster
Sydney
by Delia Falconer
New South, $29.95 hb, 301 pp, 9781921410925
Delia Falconer’s Sydney, the third in a series from New South in which leading Australian authors write about their hometowns, is lik ... More
Kerryn Goldsworthy: Adelaide
Don’s conundrum
Gay Bilson
Adelaide
by Kerryn Goldsworthy
New South, $29.95 hb, 304 pp, 9781742232621
This year is the 175th anniversary of European settlement in South Australia. The University of Adelaide presented a series of public lectures c ... More
Alasdair McGregor (ed.): Antarctica
Antarctica as a climatic bellwether
James Bradley
Antarctica: That Sweep of Savage Splendour
edited by Alasdair McGregor
Viking, $39.95 hb, 352 pp, 9780670074426
On 18 January 1773, less than twenty-four hours after first entering Antarctic waters ... More
