Australian history framed by responses to the natural world and our interactions with it; contributors from David Collins onwards, organised into 'Settling', 'Dreaming', 'Gardening Life', 'Sex in the Garden', 'A Child's Garden', 'Friend and Foe', 'The Garden of Good and Evil', 'Gardening Nation', 'Schooling the Gardener', 'The Walled Garden' and 'Remembering'; illustrations, bibliography.
