This volume is about the mythologies of land exploration, and about
space and the colonial enterprise in particular. It is an
investigation of the presumptions, aesthetics and politics of
Australian explorers texts that looks at the journals of John
Oxley, Thomas Mitchell, Charles Sturt and Ludwig Leichhardt, and
shows that they are not the simple, unadorned observations the
authors would have us believe, but, rather, complex networks of
tropes. The text argues that contact with Aborigines and the virgin
land are occasions of discursive contest, and that, however much
explorers construct themselves as monarchs of all they survey, this
monarchy is not absolute. This book intention is to scrutinize and
undermine the scientific and literary methodology of exploration.
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