cover image The Road to Botany Bay: An Exploration of Landscape and History

The Road to Botany Bay: An Exploration of Landscape and History

Paul Carter. University of Chicago Press, $20.5 (412pp) ISBN 978-0-226-09516-5

``In this `spatial' and cultural history, the British-born Australian author seeks the origins of Australian civilization in the journals, letters home, unfinished maps and other narratives by its explorers, soldiers and emigrants, including tall tales and accounts of escapes by convicts who helped settle the vast territory,'' reported PW. Illustrated. (Oct.)