Some parts thickly clothed in forest with rivers with fordable places as if ‘ they had been intended for such a purpose.’Įlizabeth Macarthur in 1795 wrote about the area near modern-day Parramatta, In every early convict painting, in every journal and in every letter back home, it’s there – the park like nature of Australia, the carpets of grass and lightly wooded areas. The extraordinary thing about Bill Gammage’s award winning book, The Biggest Estate on Earth, is how obvious what he is saying really is when you look at the records – the letters, the journals, the paintings and sketches of early colonial times in Australia.
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