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The concept of ´wilderness´ as a foundational idea for environmentalist thought has become the subject of vigorous debates. Myths of Wilderness in Contemporary Narratives offers a taxonomy of the forms that wilderness writing has taken in Australian and Canadian literature, re-emphasizing both country´s origins as colonies.

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An(n)alogies of reading place: Aritha van Herk´s Places Far From Ellesmere Go on the country, not on the map: Tim Winton´s Dirt Music A ´calligraphy of landscape´: Kim Mahood´s Outback in Craft for a Dry Lake ´Line drifts between the opposing points´: Mark Hume´s River of the Angry Moon ´Different shades of stripes´: The Tasmanian Tiger and Julia Leigh´s The Hunter Culture Nature Future: Margaret Atwood´s Oryx and Crake

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"Quite expansive and thought-provoking . . . Myths of Wilderness is a useful contribution to scholarship on wilderness writing." - Journal of Postcolonial Writing

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KYLIE CRANE is a Junior Professor for Anglophone Literatures and Cultures at the University of Mainz, Germany.

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