ABSTRACT
The staggeringly empty country that is Australia is a powerful landscape of vivid skies, 'blue as a coma', ocean spray, mysterious boab trees, a dark red interior and the most dazzling of white sands. 'The luminous dunes, the island, the lagoon with its seagrass and coral outcrops, and the low, austere heath of the hinterland' 'that cerulean blue water and the ultramarine sky': these sights are singular even to the least rhapsodic of gazes. While Sculthorpe has chosen to live in the Woollahra district of Sydney has streets of beautiful colonial houses and periodically to take trips to the wilderness of Tasmania and the Northern Territory other figures may have more immediately physical affiliations with place. Composer and environmentalist Ron Nagorcka has immersed himself in the heart of the Tasmanian rainforest, living in a solar-powered where his garden is the surrounding forest. The chapter also presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in this book.
