Contents

Acknowledgements

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Introduction

1 Deep time and human history: The Sydney environment

2 Encounters in Eora country

3 The Camp, the canvas

4 ‘Food from a common industry’: Public farms and common lands

5 Seeding and breeding

6 Views from Flagstaff Hill

7 Landscape artists: The Macquaries in Sydney

8 The face of the country

9 Nefarious geographies

10 ‘A very bountiful place indeed’: Women and country

11 Soft colony

12 Taking possession

13 War on the Cumberland Plain

14 Aftermath

Epilogue

Abbreviations

Notes

List of illustrations

Bibliography