Edition 9: Up North
Australians have always been enchanted and threatened by the north.
Up North will change the way you think about the north of the country and the region beyond. In major new essays and reportage it demolishes some of the most potent myths about the north, and re-evaluates our understanding of the Japanese threat during the Second World War.
This edition turns the map upside down to imagine a new integrated
and reconciled future. Moving memoirs and fiction recreate the enduring quest for the exotic as outstanding writers travel further and further north pursuing their dreams.
Writers include:
Peter Stanley, Peter Spearritt, David Malouf, Murray Sayle,
Creed C. O'Hanlon, Matthew Condon, Bob Wurth, Michael Wesley,
Dewi Anggraeni, Andrew McMillan, Robyn Davidson, Mark McKenna,
Christine Zorzi, Regina Ganter, John Carroll, Meera Atkinson, Andrew Belk,
Phil Brown, Lucy Palmer, and Patrick Holland.
Book Details: RRP: $16.95 / Publication date: August 2006 / ISBN: 9780733316715 / Extent: 232 pp / Format: Paperback (234 x 153mm)
Contents
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Introduction
( 1 )
- Beyond the Brisbane Line (Edition Introduction) Julianne Schultz
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Essay
( 9 )
- Threat made manifest Peter Stanley
- Of the bomb Matthew Condon
- Howard’s way: northerly neighbours and western friends Michael Wesley
- The pain of disrespect Dewi Anggraeni
- Northern Exposure – crossing the minefields of Jaffna Peter Davis
- A symbolic life Mark McKenna
- Chains of connection Paul Taçon
- Turning the map upside down Regina Ganter
- Develop the north John Carroll
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Fiction
( 2 )
- The Einstein canaries Andrew Belk
- The angel in the travelling show Patrick Holland
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Memoir
( 6 )
- The exotic at home David Malouf
- Even further north Murray Sayle (dec.)
- In ancient wakes Creed O'Hanlon
- Return of the camel lady Robyn Davidson
- From a moving car Meera Atkinson
- Our man up there Phil Brown
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Reportage
( 4 )
- Curtin’s hand of friendship Bob Wurth
- We’re all eccentrics here Andrew McMillan
- The delegation Christine Zorzi
- These people Lucy Palmer