Extract: Nation, Memory, Myth by Steve Vizard
Posted on 11 Jun 2025
How does myth generate meaning for a nation and its citizens? How does a national myth transform into symbolic performances of cultural memory and kinship?
Richard Allen
Richard Allen has been a writer for more than thirty-five years, covering a wide variety of subjects for The Australian Financial Review, The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald, Good Weekend, The Sunday Telegraph (UK), BRW and The Far Eastern Economic Review. He has written eleven books.
Kimbal Baker is a freelance photographer with more than forty years' experience. His images have been published in numerous journals and magazines, and he has worked as a staff photographer for ACP Publications and Agence France-Presse. His images have also been acquired by the National Library of Australia and a number have been issued by Australia Post as First Day Covers and a postage stamp series.
The pair have travelled in Australia for many years writing books on, among other things, great trees, great rural properties and great wine families. Together they have published six titles with Melbourne University Publishing.
Books
Australia's Remarkable Trees New Edition
Richard Allen and Kimbal Baker
PAPERBACK..... $44.99
ISBN: 9780522866599
Great Properties of the Riverina and the Upper Murray
Kimbal Baker and Richard Allen
HARDBACK..... $79.99
ISBN: 9780522880656
Australia's First Families of Wine
Richard Allen and Kimbal Baker
HARDBACK..... $69.99
ISBN: 9780522875201
More Great Properties of Country Victoria
Richard Allen and Kimbal Baker
HARDBACK..... $59.99
ISBN: 9780522872392
Spirit of Golf and How it Applies
Richard Allen
EBOOK..... $15.99
ISBN: 9780522871791
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