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Ambivalent Eulogy: Catherine Martin's 'The Explorers'
Catherine Edith Macauley Mackay (later Martin) was only 13 in 1861 when Burke and Wills set out from Melbourne in their bid to race the South Australian explorer John McDouall Stuart in crossing the continent from south to north. Although such an enterprise is now more likely to be seen as a characteristically imperialistic gesture, part of an attempt to establish theoretical sovereignty over the land by imposing a Eurocentric grid upon it, at the time such a venture was regarded as little short of necessary and self-evidently valuable.
History
Publication title
WesterlyVolume
41Pagination
29-47ISSN
0043-342XDepartment/School
School of HumanitiesPublisher
Cent Studies Australian LitPlace of publication
Univ Western Australia, Nedlands, Australia, West Australia, 6009Rights statement
Copyright 1996 the author.Repository Status
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