Seminar paper from the year 2008 in the subject English - Literature, Works, grade: 1,3, University of Cologne (Philosophische Fakultat, Englisches Seminar), course: Australian Literature in English in the Colonial Period, language: English, abstract: "Bush is a term which probably derives from the Dutch word bosch' and was used as early as 1800. By the 1820s it was in common use to denote the unsettled areas of the Colony and, more specifically, as the Australian equivalent of the English words 'woods' and 'forest'. Although many early settlers disliked and feared the bush, it did not go...