Diaries of Frank Hurley 1912-1941

Informationen zum Autor Robert Dixon is Professor of Australian Literature at the University of Sydney. He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities and a past-President of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature, and has published widely on Australian literature, postcolonialism, Australian cultural studies, Australian art history, and early photography and cinema. Christopher Lee is Professor of English and the Associate Dean (Research) in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Southern Queensland. He is a past-President of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature and a founding editor of the association’s journal JASAL. His research interests include Australian literature, the history of criticism, public memory and the representation of war. Klappentext This is the first illustrated edition of the diaries kept by Australian-born photographer and film maker Frank Hurley about his work on the Mawson and Shackleton Antarctic Expeditions, his two expeditions to Papua in the 1920s, and his experiences during the First and Second World Wars.

Product details

• Authors: Robert Lee Dixon, Frank Hurley
• Assisted by: Robert Dixon (Editor), Christopher Lee (Editor)
• Publisher: Anthem Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.04.2011
• EAN: 9780857287755
• ISBN: 978-0-85728-775-5
• No. of pages: 302
• Series: Anthem Studies in Travel; Anthem Film and Culture
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Diaries, letters & journals, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Diaries & Journals, PHOTOGRAPHY / Individual Photographers / General, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Letters, Individual photographers, Diaries, letters and journals