Westerly 36:4

Contents:

Essay

George Seddon The Nature of Nature
Ian Saunders Against Beauty: Ecology and the Nature of Reading.
Toby Miller Environmental Populism
Delys Bird Women in the Wilderness: Gender, Landscape and Eliza Brown's Letters and Journal
Frances Devlin Glass Furphy and the Land: The Feminine as a Metaphor for the Landscape
George Seddon Journeys Through Landscape
Graham White Beyond Windswept Branches: Simpson Newland's Images of Central Australia
John McLaren Security and Violaton: Randolph Stow's The Merry-Go-Round in the Sea
Sylvia Hallam Peopled Landscapes: Original Australian Land Holding and Land Management in Southwestern Australia
Veronica Brady The Environment: A Bran Nue Dae or a Very Ancient One?
Laurie Hergenhan The "I" of the Beholder: Representations of Tuscany in Some Recent Australian Literature

Creative Non-fiction

Jinny (Ngarta) Bent Ngarta's Story—as told to Pat Lowe
Barry Lopez Informed by Indifference: A Walk in Antarctica

Review

Andrew Burke A review of Paul Hetherington's Acts Themselves Trivial
Peter Cowan A review of The Wollaston Journals, Vol. I 1840-1842
Julie Lewis A review of Roger Underwood's Leaves from the Forest and Echoes from the Forest
Philip Salom A review of Chris Wallace-Crabbe's For Crying Out Loud
Margot Luke A review of J.S. Beard's Plant Life of Western Australia

Poetry

Alan Urquhart Huts of the High Country
Ron Pretty Paterson's Curse as Salvation Jane
Fiona Kidman The First Land
Sue Nicholls Heartland
Les A. Murray Home Suite
Anthony Lawrence The Capricorn
John Malone Colony
Anthony Lawrence Steep Point
Peter McLester Images of Melbourne
Graeme Wilson Backwater
Francis Healy Wimmera Miracle

Fiction

Michelle Mee Kashubian Lake Diary
Deborah Zion Away From Eden