Synopsis
"The blue curtain admits cliff-top spectacles of deeply worn valleys and sandstone outcrops. They are ancient and affecting, capable of prompting the most extreme reactions: they can move you to tears, or love, or even - quite literally - to death." This award winning book explores the myths that form the meanings of the Blue Mountains taking the reader on a compelling journey through culture, landscape and mythology. For both Aboriginal people and their colonisers, the rugged landscape of the Blue Mountains has stood as an intriguing riddle and a stimulus to the imagination. The author evokes this dramatic and bewildering landscape and leads his readers through the cultural history of the locality in order to probe the 'dreamwork of imperialism'.
