Douglas Booth: Bondi Beach | Buch

Cover: 9789811638985 | Bondi Beach | Representations of an Iconic Australian | Douglas Booth

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Beschreibung

Bondi Beach is a history of an iconic place. It is a big history of geological origins, management by Aboriginal people, environmental despoliation by white Australians, and the formation of beach cultures. It is also a local history of the name Bondi, the origins of the Big Rock at Ben Buckler, the motives of early land holders, the tragedy known as Black Sunday, the hostilities between lifesavers and surfers, and the hullabaloos around the Pavilion. Pointing to a myriad of representations, author Douglas Booth shows that there is little agreement about the meaning of Bondi. Booth resolves these representations with a fresh narrative that presents the beach¿s perspective of a place under siege. Booth¿s creative narrative conveys important lessons about our engagement with the physical world.

Über den Autor

Professor Douglas Booth is Dean of Adventure, Culinary Arts and Tourism at Thompson Rivers University (Canada), an Emeritus Professor at the University of Otago (New Zealand) and an Honorary Professor at the University of Queensland (Australia). His previous works include The Field (2005), Australian Beach Cultures (2001) and The Race Game (1997).

Zusammenfassung

Provides multiple, open-ended historical representations and perspectives of Bondi Beach

Challenges and reconfigures dominant discourses of 'reality' by opening them up to a multiplicity of contexts

Written in a rigorous yet accessible style, appealing to a broad, interdisciplinary scholarly audience and beyond

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1 Explanations.- Bondi in place and history.- 2 Sand.- 3 Storms.- 4 Eora and Bondi country.- 5 Berewalgal and colonisation.- 6 Surfbathers.- 7 Surf lifesavers.- 8 Surfboard riders.- 9 Nature and culture.- 10 Pavilion.- The voice of Bondi.- 11 Autobiography.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2021
Fachbereich:	Geografie
Genre:	Geowissenschaften , Importe
Rubrik:	Naturwissenschaften & Technik
Medium:	Buch
Inhalt:	xvii 349 S. 57 s/w Illustr. 349 p. 57 illus.
ISBN-13:	9789811638985
ISBN-10:	9811638985
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Gebunden
Autor:	Booth, Douglas
Auflage:	1st edition 2021
Hersteller:	Springer Singapore Springer Nature Singapore
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, D-69121 Heidelberg, juergen.hartmann@springer.com
Maße:	216 x 153 x 25 mm
Von/Mit:	Douglas Booth
Erscheinungsdatum:	30.09.2021
Gewicht:	0,588 kg