TY - BOOK ID - 78676314 TI - Roads, Tourism and Cultural History : On the Road in Australia PY - 2018 SN - 1845416708 1845416694 9781845416690 9781845416683 1845416686 PB - Bristol, UK; Blue Ridge Summit, PA : Channel View Publications, DB - UniCat KW - Tourism KW - Automobile travel KW - Automobile touring KW - Automobile traveling KW - Automobiles KW - Automobiling KW - Touring, Automobile KW - Traveling by car KW - Travel KW - Holiday industry KW - Operators, Tour (Industry) KW - Tour operators (Industry) KW - Tourism industry KW - Tourism operators (Industry) KW - Tourist industry KW - Tourist trade KW - Tourist traffic KW - Travel industry KW - Visitor industry KW - Service industries KW - National tourism organizations KW - Social aspects KW - Touring KW - Traveling KW - Economic aspects KW - #SBIB:39A5 KW - #SBIB:39A76 KW - Kunst, habitat, materiële cultuur en ontspanning KW - Etnografie: Oceanië KW - Australia. KW - Cultural Routes. KW - Road literature. KW - Road movies. KW - Road tourism. KW - Roads . KW - The road. KW - cultural heritage. KW - cultural history. KW - road heritage . KW - road history. KW - road trip. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78676314 AB - Roads and road tourism loom large in the Australian imagination as distance and mobility have shaped the nation’s history and culture, but roads are more than simply transport routes; they embody multiple layers of history, mythology and symbolism. Drawing on Australian travel writing, diaries and manuscripts, tourism literature, fiction, poetry and feature films, this book explores how Australians have experienced and imagined roads and road touring beyond urban settings: from Aboriginal ‘songlines’ to modern-day road trips. It also tells the stories of iconic roads, including the Birdsville Track, Stuart Highway and Great Ocean Road, and suggests alternative approaches to heritage and tourism interpretation of these important routes. The ongoing impact of the colonial past on Indigenous peoples and contemporary Australian society and culture – including representations of the road and road travel – is explored throughout the book. The volume offers a new way of thinking about roads and road tourism as important strands in a nation’s cultural fabric. ER -