The Road to Botany Bay, first published in 1987 and considered a classic in the field of cultural and historical geography, examines the poetic constitution of colonial society. Through a far-reaching exploration of Australia's mapping, narrative description, early urbanism, and bush mythology, Paul Carter exposes the mythopoetic mechanisms of empire. A powerfully written account of the ways in which language, history, and geography influenced the territorial theater of nineteenth-century imperialism, the book is also a call to think, write, and live differently.
- ISBN10 0571145515
- ISBN13 9780571145515
- Publish Date 12 October 1987
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 13 March 1992
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Faber & Faber
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 410
- Language English