Peter Conrad was born in Tasmania, Australia in 1948. The place has an ill-starred history which includes a hellish penal colony, genocide of its Aboriginal natives, and the destruction of its pristine nature. At the age of twenty, he crossed the equator "without a backward glance" and went to Oxford on scholarship. It was after another twenty years that he re-crossed the equator and returned to Tasmania to see the reality of the place and to discover his relation to it, and wrote Behind the Mountain: Return to Tasmania (1988). This research note attempts to survey Conrad's hemispherical collision in Behind the Mountain and two more essays written in 2004.
研究ノート:ピーター・コンラッドの二つの世界
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