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Rebe Taylor

A survey of environmental writing

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October 2017, no. 395

To complement our coverage of new books on the subject, we invited a number of writers, scholars, and environmentalists to nominate the books that have had the greatest effect on them from an environmental point of view.

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Into the heart of Tasmania: A search for human antiquity by Rebe Taylor

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May 2017, no. 391
Philip Jones reviews 'Into the heart of Tasmania: A search for human antiquity' by Rebe Taylor

The historian Rebe Taylor has a fascination with Australia’s southern islands and their capacity to contain or magnify issues of identity for their indigenous inhabitants, if not for their broader populations ...

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Seven Versions of An Australian Badland by Ross Gibson & Looking For Blackfellas’ Point by Mark McKenna

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February 2003, no. 248
Lyndall Ryan reviews 'Seven Versions of An Australian Badland' by Ross Gibson, 'Looking For Blackfellas’ Point: An Australian History of Place' by Mark McKenna and 'Unearthed: The Aboriginal Tasmanians of Kangaroo Island' by Rebe Taylor

The idea of place as a metaphor of Australia’s colonial past and post-colonial present is a recent development in Australian history. The three books reviewed here come from a new generation of cultural historians who want to move the story of Australia from the national to the local. These cultural historians’ books reveal an intimacy with place and a new confidence in connecting the past to the present.

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