By the Book

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By the Book is written by Patrick Buckridge and published by Univ. of Queensland Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0702234680 (ISBN 10) and 9780702234682 (ISBN 13).

"By the Book is an indispensable history of the literature of Queensland from its establishment as a separate colony in the mid-nineteenth century through major economic, political and cultural transformations to the beginning of the twenty-first century. Queensland figures in the Australian imagination as a frontier, a place of wild landscapes and wilder politics, but also as Australia's playground, a soft tourist paradise of warm weather and golden beaches. Based partly on real historical divergences from the rest of Australia, these contradictory images have been questioned and scrutini.