On Holidays History Of Getting Away In Australia RWhite

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On Holidays ~ A history of getting away in Australia ~ Richard White....softcover, measures approx 18cm x 23.5cm. Comes in good condition..has a texta mark across the lower page stack

Did white Australia begin as a rich man's holiday? After all Joseph Banks was a young handsome and rich botanist who passed up the opportunity of a Grand Tour of Europe in favour of something more adventurous, joining Captain Cook on a cruise to the Pacific, one of the highlights being Botany Bay.. Beginning with this fresh look at the discovery of the future Australian colonies, On Holidays gives the first detailed account of the long struggle to bring about an Australian institution. Australians were the first people to embrace the civilising importance of time off, winning the eight hour day, weekend penalty rates and paid annual leave, becoming a society that celebrated the importance of working to live rather than living to work.. But what has now become of the land of the long weekend? In our rush to consume more have we become a nation of timid workaholics too brow beaten, too ambitious or too sychophantic to take holidays we are owed? At the same time we are overwhelmed by holiday choices, from tropical paradise to caravan parks, gourmet biges to sex tourism, bush walking to extreme sports, five star resorts to bargain shopping, island cruises to ecotourism. On Holidays traces just what has happened to holidays in Australia and poses tehe question - is the institution we have taken for granted for over half a century now at risk because we are too busy to notice or to care?

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