Images of Australia by Blanche Hewitt

Images of Australia

Edited by Blanche Hewitt

Octopus Publishing Group, 1989, ISBN 0947334009, full-colour photographs throughout, photographic title page, hardcover with colour photographic boards

Very Good Condition, minor edge and shelf wear, no inscriptions (see photographs)

“Terra Australis, the great South Land – ancient, mysterious, a vast island continent floating silently beneath the old world.  Home of a race of hunter-gatherers, unique animal and plantlife, and abundant and colourful birdlife, the land was settled by Europeans two hundred years ago.
From the time of European explorers, through the penal settlements, the arrival of free settlers, and the great wave of post-war immigration from Europe and Britain, Australia has emerged in the second half of the twentieth century as a young nation with increasing confidence in its own identity.  A new appreciation of the uniqueness of her heritage, both environmental and cultural, has resulted in the shaking off of that ‘outpost of Empire’ feeling.  Australia has come of age.”