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Acknowledgements In 1983-4 the Literature Board of the Australia Council awarded me a three month living and travelling grant: at a time when the book's development was both financially and conceptually uncertain, this meant a great deal. I am also grateful to the former editor of 'The Age' Monthly Review, Robert Haupt, who in the book's early stages found room for some of its ideas even in their unlicked state. Patrick Morgan was generous in sharing with me his knowledge of Gippsland history and literature. Terry Birtles of the Canberra College of Advanced Education forwarded me information about settlement on the Atherton Tableland. Geoff Tracey of CSIRO kindly provided the results of his vegetation survey in north-east Queensland. Brian Finlayson of the University of Melbourne shared with me his work on Major Mitchell and Lake Salvator. I am also grateful to Mrs Ida Stanton of Hall's Gap and to Mr Tom Horton of Coronet Bay for helping me to locateillustrations 13 and 14 respectively. The kind and timely advocacy of David Malouf, Peter Carey and Professor Bernard Smith was instrumental in bringing my typescript to the attention of publishers: my thanks to them all. For constructive criticism of the text I am grateful to historian Richard White. An extract of the book (chapter 4), which was published in Scripsi, gained in stylistic grace from the attention of the magazine's editors, Michael Heyward and Peter Craven. My chief debt is to Martin Harrison. From the beginning he debated, encouraged and promoted this book with a rare combination of critical generosity and creative engagement. If The Road to Botany Bay traverses new historical ground in any way, it owes much to his adventurous guidance. Needless to say, for whatever remains treacherous and illmarked along the way, I alone am responsible. XI This page intentionally left blank ...