The Littoral Zone

In this, the first collection of ecocritical essays devoted to Australian contexts and their writers, Australian and US scholars explore the transliteration of land and sea through the works of Australian authors and through their own experiences. The littoral zone is the starting point in this fresh approach to reading literature organised around the natural environmentrainforest, desert, mountains, coast, islands, Antarctica. There's the beach, where sexual and spiritual crises occur; the West