Antipodes Books & Beyond
Community development through tourism.
As communities in developed and developing nations contend with ever-increasing internationalization, they are also dealing with how they present and regulate themselves to the world. According to Beeton (sport, tourism and hospitality management, La Trobe U.) one sure way for communities to develop effective strategies that develop identity and further growth is to build tourism into their plans. She explains how careful management of tourism (conducted by members of the community or by those outside) can improve the bottom line without stretching resources, gives leading theories of tourism, describes the process of planning and the importance of including the community in developing strategies, and details the means of marketing. She also describes rural tourism and dealing with crisis. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
The company we keep; an intimate celebration of Opera Australia.
This volume highlights the opera company Opera Australia, in honor of its 50th anniversary. Berman describes the company's productions in Sydney and Melbourne, its tours with OzOpera in Tasmania, and the production process. These details involve the creation of a season, how the company attracts audiences, the roles of singers, directors, and conductors, set and costume design, rehearsal, and the orchestral function. Many b&w photos are included. There is no bibliography. Berman is a freelance music writer and Elliot specializes in photographing classical musicians. They have previously collaborated on opera and music feature articles and interviews for Australian and international publications. Distributed by Antipodes Books & Beyond, Ltd. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
The diaries of Donald Friend; v.4.
The culmination of a project by the National Library of Australia, this volume is the fourth and final volume of the diaries of Australian artist Donald Friend (1915-1989). It covers his time spent in Bali, his return to Australia and final decade there, spanning 1966 to 1988. While in Bali, he had guests such as Mick Jagger and the Duke and Duchess of Bedford, and wrote about Balinese domestic and religious activities, traditions, village life, and landscapes. He describes encounters with friends and colleagues, such as Richard Griffin, Mitty Lee-Brown, Geoffrey Bawa, Russell Drysdale, and gallery owners and others, as well as insights on himself. The volume includes about 70 drawings. Hetherington is editor of volumes two and three of Friend's diaries. Distributed in the US by Antipodes Books & Beyond, Ltd. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Facing Percy Grainger.
This text accompanies the exhibition Facing Percy Grainger, which was curated for the National Library of Australia in association with the Grainger Collection at the U. of Melbourne (where Grainger established his own museum in 1938). Along with photos, paintings, and other memorabilia from the exhibition, it features seven essays on pianist and composer Grainger (1882-1961) covering his formative years, and achievements as a performer, composer, arranger, social commentator, archivist, and visual artist and collector. A brief list of selected works cited in the publication is included. There is no index or bibliography. Pear (Humanities Research Centre, Australian National U., and music, Monash U.) was co-curator of the exhibition. Other contributors are curators and scholars of music based in Australia and Singapore. Distributed by Antipodes Books & Beyond. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Forever foreign; expatriate lives in historical Kobe.
Tamura (Pacific and Asian studies, Australian National U.) is a native of Osaka and a graduate of Kobe College. She explores the lives of four long-term expatriates, three males and one female, who lived and eventually died in Kobe, Japan. All four had British or Australian backgrounds, and all spent the major parts of their lives in Kobe in the first half of the 20th century. Coverage includes an introductory overview of Kobe, the opening of the port city to the outside world in 1868, and the growth of its foreign population; individual chapters on each of the four expatriates; and a concluding summarization of their lives in relation to Japan and its history in the 20th century. No subject index. Illustrated with b&w and color photographs. Distributed in the U.S. by Antipodes Books and Beyond. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Gallipoli; the front line experience, 2d ed. (map included)
Filmmakers Örnek and Toker have assembled this beautiful and very moving companion to the feature-length documentary lovingly, and include first-hand accounts, production stills, fold-out maps and folded poster, and period illustrations. The result carefully explains all the details of the episode, including the senselessness of the deaths, and helps readers understand how the stories about the siege and battles grew into myths on both sides of the trenches. Distributed by Antipodes Books & Beyond. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
James Northfield; and the art of selling Australia.
This catalog commemorates the posters and other works of Northfield, a prolific and successful commercial artist in the 1920s-1950s in Australia. The works are reproduced in full-page color plates in an oversized format (9.5x11 inches). Hetherington (National Museum of Australia) provides an introduction. Distributed by Antipodes Books & Beyond. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Kylie Tennant; a life.
This biography recounts the life and career of Australian writer Kylie Tennant (1912-1988). Details about her private and family life, and relationships with other literary figures such as Katherine Susannah Prichard, Marjorie Bernard, Douglas Stewart, and Ruth Park are related, as well as what led to the writing of her Depression novels and other works, such as her move to the Sydney slums for research for Foveaux. Most of the information is drawn from papers at the National Library of Australia. Distributed by Antipodes Books & Beyond. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Letters lifted into poetry; selected correspondence between David Campbell and Douglas Stewart, 1946-1979.
Over the 33 years, Australian poets Campbell (1915-79) and Douglas (1913-85) shared thoughts about life, poetry, publishing, friends and professional acquaintances, and their shared love of fishing. Margin notes explain references, and people mentioned are indexed. Distributed in the US by Antipodes Books and Beyond. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
National treasures from Australia's great libraries.
Featuring a wealth of objects, only some of them books, this volume provides the reader with a hint of the rich history and culture of Australia as these are preserved in the collections of its libraries. Printed in an oversized format (9.5x12 inches), the letters, log books, books, maps, death masks, armor, photos, and other objects are depicted in full-page color plates along with related materials and accompanied by an essay on the facing page. Distributed by Antipodes Books & Beyond. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Was Australia charted before 1606?; the Jave la grande inscriptions.
Richardson (Portuguese and Brazilian Studies, Flinders U.) makes good use of his research on the history of cartography to describe claims by the Portuguese, French, Spanish, Indonesians and Chinese that they were the first non-Aboriginal people to locate Australia rather than the Dutch. He works through early maps upon which explorers claimed to have found Jave la Grande, a land mass which some identified as Australia, then gives the investigation his own stamp when he analyzes records of exactly where explorers thought this land mass was, what shape it took, and how they named what appears to be its beautiful, if transient features. Distributed by Antipodes Books & Beyond. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
With love & fury; selected letters of Judith Wright.
One of Australia's most accomplished poets, Judith Wright (1915-2000) was also a well-known environmentalist and social activist. Organized chronologically, this volume presents selected letters from her personal and public correspondence that shed light on her twin passions of conservation and Indigenous rights. Editor Clarke worked with Wright on her memoir, Half a Lifetime (1999). McKinney (a translator) is Wright's daughter. Distributed in the U.S. by Antipodes Books & Beyond, Ltd. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
