Contents
Acknowledgements
Conversion chart
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