The ice and the inland : Mawson, Flynn, and the myth of the frontier
Compares two Australian folk heroes, Mawson and Flynn, and analyses the reasons for their popularity. It raises a number of topical issues including the role of Australia in the international management of Antarctica; Flynn's treatment of the Aboriginal people; and relationships between the country and the bush
Print Book, English, 2002
Melbourne University Press, Carlton South, Vic., 2002
xii, 219 pages, 26 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm
9780522850369, 0522850367
51104722
Prelude: Beltana, South Australia, 1911
Part I. Mawson of the Antarctic: the Australasian Antarctic Expedition of 1911-14: 1. 'Life opens up to one': the call of the Antarctic frontier; 2. 'Weirdness and beauty': The Antarctic wilderness; 3. 'True scientists for everything': The technological frontier; 4. 'The dear old penguins': At home in Antarctic nature
Interlude: From the Ice to the Inland
Part II. Flynn of the Inland, 1900-32: 5. 'Bushborn conquerors over nature': The city, the bush, and the frontier ideal; 6. 'Australia is a weird land': Frontier anxieties; 7. 'Essential unity': The organic nation; 8. 'A mantle of safety': Domesticating the frontierFinale: 'A wild precision, a strict disorder'