Darwin

By: Tess Lea

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Paperback | 1 November 2020

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Darwin is a survivor, you have to give it that. Razed to the ground four times in its short history, it has picked itself up out of the debris to not only rebuild but grow … Darwin has known catastrophes and resurrections; it has endured misconceived projects and birthed visionaries. To know Darwin, to know its soul, you have to listen to it, soak in it, taste it.

This is a book about the textures, colours, sounds and frontier stories of Darwin, Australia’s smallest and least-known capital city.

Darwin is a place that has to be felt to be known. Readers will sense the heat, smell the odours, hear the birds and the frogs, encounter the mosquitoes, fathom racial politics and learn how the moon-base that is Darwin is kept alive. They will understand that Darwin is a military garrison and a portal into Australia’s possible futures.

In a new postscript, Tess Lea suggests how Darwin might deliver lessons for living under the climatically assaulting and culturally uncomfortable times of the Anthropocene.

About the Author

Tess Lea was born, raised, evacuated, schooled and otherwise taught key life lessons in Darwin. She is an anthropologist whose work both explores why Indigenous social policies so often fail and enacts practical collaborations for doing something about these failurescapes. As her book suggests, she has tough answers for why things fail - answers which suggest a military industrial extractive settler complex still needs to be reckoned with - yet she also understands why Darwin the place gets under your skin.

Industry Reviews

'…great insight and vivid descriptions.'
Margaret Smith The Canberra Times

'Tess Lea's book on her home town...delves into the fabric, colours, history, geography and lifestyles of this "frontier" town with great insight and vivid descriptions.'
Margaret Smith The Sydney Morning Herald

‘Read it, visit Darwin, read it again. It’s that good.’
Stephen Muecke Flinders University

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