Ice and the Inland: Mawson,Flynn,and the Myth of the Frontier
Drawing on such rich primary sources as Antarctic diaries, journalism, and private letters, this fascinating study of how the frontier became etched in the Australia imagination in the early 20th century in the image of such folk heroes as Douglas Mawson and John Flynn, focuses on the frontier as an ecological phenomenon. It places these primary sources in context through international scholarship on such topics as imperial adventure literature, the rural life movement, population theory,...
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At the beginning of the 20th century, much of inland Australia comprised what freelance historian and writer Hains calls an ecological frontier, that is, a frontier not because it was unmapped but because the conditions made it a difficult target for imperialist exploitation. She shows the roles Antarctic explorer Douglas Mawson (1882-1958) and minister John Flynn (1880-1951) played in establishing the idea of the frontier in Australian consciousness. Distributed in the US by Paul and Company, a division of IPG. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
IllustrationsConversionsAcknowledgementsPrelude: Beltana, South Australia, 19111Pt. 1Mawson of the Antarctic: The Australasian Antarctic Expedition of 1911-1471'Life opens up to one': The call of the Antarctic frontier92'Weirdness and beauty': The Antarctic wilderness303'True scientists for everything': The technological frontier434'The dear old penguins': At home in Antarctic nature59Interlude: From the Ice to the Inland77Pt. 2Flynn of the Inland, 1900-32815'Bushborn conquerors over nature': The city, the bush, and the frontier ideal836'Australia is a weird land': Frontier anxieties1037'Essential unity': The organic nation1298'A mantle of safety': Domesticating the frontier149Finale: 'A wild precision, a strict disorder'171Abbreviations177Notes178Bibliography196Index214
