‘Travelling Home: Walkabout Magazine and Mid-Twentieth-Century Australia’

Anna Johnston and Mitchell Rolls’s book provides a detailed analysis of the contribution Walkabout magazine made to Australia’s cultural history during the period 1934 to 1974. The book argues that through advocating travel—both vicarious and actual—Walkabout encouraged settler Australians to broaden their image of the nation and its place in the Pacific region and reveals how vernacular understandings of key issues in Australia’s cultural history were developed and debated in the magazine. It can be ordered through New South Books.

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