Space, place and identity are key terms in theformation of a colonial consciousness. 'Settling theSelf', examines the conjunction of these concepts inits interdisciplinary study of the nineteenth-centurySouth African landscape. Locating aesthetic analysesand postcolonial theory within a phenomenologicalaccount of visual and spatial perception, Dubowexamines the colony as a site of desire and anxietyin the making of a colonial identity and itshistorical legacy. It addresses concerns of commoninterest to cultural geographers, historians, postcolonial theorists, art historians and othersinterested in the meaning and experience of landscape.