Publisher's Synopsis
This first literary guide to Australia provides comprehensive and evocative coverage of more than 930 places which have been celebrated by Australian writers: the places in which they worked, married, drank, and were buried. Among them are imagined locations, such as the 'Never-Never', and the Outback, together with cities, suburbs, the Monaro, the Mallee, the Kimberleys, and the Gulf country. The book focuses on Australian writers both living and dead, including writers of popular fiction, memoirs, essays, diaries, poetry, drama, and children's books. The text is accompanied by 25 black and white illustrations, sixteen pages of colour photographs, and a selection of maps to aid the literary traveller.;Readership: students and teachers of Australian or Commonwealth literature and history.
