Review
Who Wants to Create Australia?: Essays on poetry and ideas in contemporary Australia by Martin Harrison
by Ivor Indyk •
Presenting Japanese Buddhism to the West: Orientalism, Occidentalism and the Columbian Exposition by Judith Snodgrass
by Alison Broinowski •
The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography edited by H.C.G. Matthew and Brian Harrison
by Angus Trumble •
The Retreat of the Elephants: An environmental history of China by Mark Elvin
by Antonia Finnane •
The Flawed Architect: Henry Kissinger and American Foreign Policy by Jussi Hanhimäki
by Barry Jones •
An Eye For Photography: The camera in Australia by Alan Davies
by Isobel Crombie •
Intersections: Photography, history, and the national library of Australia by Helen Ennis
by Julie Robinson •
The authors of these four books use a narrative device common to much fantasy fiction: the notion of quest. Sometimes that quest requires a physical journey, and sometimes it involves searching for something closer to home, but the very process is almost invariably life-changing for the characters involved.
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