The beach : an Australian passion

Resource Information

The work The beach : an Australian passion represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

The beach : an Australian passion

Title remainder

an Australian passion

Statement of responsibility

Robert Drewe

Creator

• trueDrewe, Robert, 1943-

Contributor

• National Library of Australia

Author

• trueDrewe, Robert, 1943-

Issuing body

• National Library of Australia

Subject

• trueAustralian
• Bathing customs -- Australia -- History
• trueBeaches -- Australia
• Beaches -- Australia -- Anecdotes
• Beaches -- Australia -- Pictorial works
• trueAustralia -- Social life and customs
• Beaches -- Recreational use -- Australia -- Pictorial works
• Beaches -- Recreational use -- Australia
• Australia -- Social life and customs -- Pictorial works

Genre

• truePictorial works
• trueAnecdotes

Language

eng

Summary

From an Indigenous food source to a hedonistic playground, the beach has long been a national obsession. Robert Drewe’s lyrical examination of Australian beach culture, in this new National Library of Australia publication, combines imagery from some of Australia’s most celebrated photographers with his stories - a favourite boat, a capsicum-strewn beach, a summer holiday and an unwelcome great white. Drewe looks at the sunny, salty sexiness of the beach that first enticed the crusading Mr William Gocher into the ocean at Manly in 1903, defying authorities in his neck-to-knee bathing costume. We’ve come a long way from sunbathing in stockings and pantaloons to the unabashed display of sun-kissed bodies of all shapes and sizes at any beach in the country today. But the beach also has a dark side as a place of tragedy, violence and danger, a place where sharks attack prone surfers and prime ministers disappear. In The Beach, Drewe turns his attention to the favourite coastal theme, but in a new way: a mix of history, reminiscence and lyrical description, complemented by photographs from the National Library of Australia’s collection

Cataloging source

ANL

Dewey number

994

Government publication

federal national government publication

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps

Index

no index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography