"Literature." . . . . "The Blue Plateau an Australian Pastoral"@en . . . . . . . . "The Blue Plateau is located in the Blue Mountains southwest of Sydney. This book reveals the plateau through its inhabitants: the Gundungurra people, the Maxwell family, the ranchers and firefighters; and the author himself. This book incorporates poetry, history, ecology, mythology, and memoir." . . . "The Blue Plateau an Australian pastoral"@en . . . "Located in the Blue Mountains southwest of Sydney, the Blue Plateau is a contrary collection of canyons and creeks, cow paddocks and eucalyptus forests, €the first people€and ranchers. This book reveals the plateau through its inhabitants: the Gundungurra people who were there first and still remain; the Maxwell family, who tried, but failed, to tame the land; the affable, impoverished, often drunken ranchers and firefighters; and the author himself, a poet trying to insinuate his citified self into a rugged landscape defined by drought, fire, and scarcity. Like the works of Peter Mat."@en . . "Poetry"@en . "Poetry" . . "Electronic books"@en . . . "The Blue Plateau : an Australian pastoral" . . . . . . . "Human ecology Blue Mountains Region (N.S.W.)" . . "Blue Mountains Region (N.S.W.) Poetry." . . "Blue Mountains Region (N.S.W.) Description and travel." . . "Blue Mountains (Australie ; massif)" . . "Wilderness areas Blue Mountains Region (N.S.W.)" . . "Blue Mountains Region (N.S.W.)" . . "POETRY / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh" . . . .