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Roads, Tourism and Cultural History : On the Road in Australia / Rosemary Kerr.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Tourism and Cultural Change ; 53Publisher: Bristol, UK; Blue Ridge Summit, PA : Channel View Publications, [2018]Copyright date: ©2019Description: 1 online resource (304 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781845416683
  • 9781845416690
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • G155.A75 K47 2019
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Abbreviations and Metric Conversions -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Imagining the Road -- 1. Making Tracks -- 2. The Call of the Open Road -- 3. 'Discovering' Australia -- 4. Travelling North -- 5. 'Going Around': On the Road to Nowhere? -- 6. Freedom on the Wallaby? -- 7. What Goes on Tour... .: Communities and Rituals of the Road -- 8. Blood on the Bitumen: The Dark Side of the Road -- 9. Politics and Protest on the Road -- 10. Romancing the Road: Constructing Australian Icons -- Are We There Yet? Conclusions on the Road -- Select Bibliography -- Index
Summary: Roads and road tourism loom large in the Australian imagination as distance and mobility have shaped the nation's history and culture, but roads are more than simply transport routes; they embody multiple layers of history, mythology and symbolism. Drawing on Australian travel writing, diaries and manuscripts, tourism literature, fiction, poetry and feature films, this book explores how Australians have experienced and imagined roads and road touring beyond urban settings: from Aboriginal 'songlines' to modern-day road trips. It also tells the stories of iconic roads, including the Birdsville Track, Stuart Highway and Great Ocean Road, and suggests alternative approaches to heritage and tourism interpretation of these important routes. The ongoing impact of the colonial past on Indigenous peoples and contemporary Australian society and culture - including representations of the road and road travel - is explored throughout the book. The volume offers a new way of thinking about roads and road tourism as important strands in a nation's cultural fabric.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Abbreviations and Metric Conversions -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Imagining the Road -- 1. Making Tracks -- 2. The Call of the Open Road -- 3. 'Discovering' Australia -- 4. Travelling North -- 5. 'Going Around': On the Road to Nowhere? -- 6. Freedom on the Wallaby? -- 7. What Goes on Tour... .: Communities and Rituals of the Road -- 8. Blood on the Bitumen: The Dark Side of the Road -- 9. Politics and Protest on the Road -- 10. Romancing the Road: Constructing Australian Icons -- Are We There Yet? Conclusions on the Road -- Select Bibliography -- Index

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Roads and road tourism loom large in the Australian imagination as distance and mobility have shaped the nation's history and culture, but roads are more than simply transport routes; they embody multiple layers of history, mythology and symbolism. Drawing on Australian travel writing, diaries and manuscripts, tourism literature, fiction, poetry and feature films, this book explores how Australians have experienced and imagined roads and road touring beyond urban settings: from Aboriginal 'songlines' to modern-day road trips. It also tells the stories of iconic roads, including the Birdsville Track, Stuart Highway and Great Ocean Road, and suggests alternative approaches to heritage and tourism interpretation of these important routes. The ongoing impact of the colonial past on Indigenous peoples and contemporary Australian society and culture - including representations of the road and road travel - is explored throughout the book. The volume offers a new way of thinking about roads and road tourism as important strands in a nation's cultural fabric.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 27. Sep 2021)