How has the landscape shaped the definition of what it means to be Australian? Why was the bush so often seen as a place of the weird and the monstrous? Have white Australians learned from Aboriginal relationships with the natural environment? Looks at the climatic, cultural, political and economic forces which have shaped the Australian landscape from the period before known human settlement until the present, taking a dynamic approach to the relationship between humans and their environment. Draws on a broad range of disciplines, including literature, geography, history, politics, sociology and cultural studies.