{"product_id":"visions-of-australia-1640-1910","title":"Visions of Australia: 1640-1910","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book records the opinions of one hundred of those who saw the land in its unchanged state one to two hundred years ago, and the cities as they developed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe book remakes the conception of Australia.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHenry Lawson, Adam Lindsay Gordon and others wrote well enough to daub a permanent drab coat over the loveliness that was Australia. They saw it through the eyes of settlers trying to build farms with insufficient land, insufficient money and insufficient knowledge.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe casual first observers of country and city found them beautiful. They transform the modern notions of a harsh landscape into a garden of wildflowers. They transform the wood-and-canvas huts fronting streets of mud and dust of early towns into buildings both costly and economical of extraordinary elegance.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThey transform the European people from drunken and licentious convicts and opportunists into members of a society intelligent, vigorous, adaptable and proud. They transform Aboriginal Australians into highly intelligent people with great artistic ability.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Eric Rolls","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46294694199465,"sku":"9780734404459","price":14.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0424\/9518\/0962\/files\/9780734404459.jpg?v=1757132065","url":"https:\/\/roseyravelstonbooks.com.au\/products\/visions-of-australia-1640-1910","provider":"RoseyRavelston Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}