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'Over two centuries the sublime power of the Great Barrier Reef is gradually diminished in discourse, as naturalists become scientists and ecologists, as maritime navigation becomes less dangerous, as explorers became industrialists and tourists, and as poets, novelists philosophers and other imaginative thinkers and writers begin to turn their attention to exploring the beauty of the reef.'
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Literary Representations of the Great Barrier Reef
Etropic : Electronic Journal of Studies in the Tropics
Subjects:
- Captain Quiros : A Poem 1964 single work poetry
- Confessions of a Beachcomber 1908 extract autobiography
- Reef Poems 1976 selected work poetry
- Reefscape : Reflections on the Great Barrier Reef 2000 single work prose
- The Dugong Meadow 2002 single work picture book
- Great Barrier Reef, Australian seas,
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