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Following the Water : Environmental History and the Hydrological Cycle in Colonial Gippsland, Australia, 1838-1900.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Canberra : ANU Press, 2019Copyright date: ©2019Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (330 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781760462857
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Following the WaterDDC classification:
  • 551.48
LOC classification:
  • GB661.2 .C376 2019
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- List of maps, figures and tables -- Acknowledgements -- Maps -- Introduction -- Making the circle round: Perceptions of hydrology through time -- The earth's thoughtful lords? Nineteenth-century views of water and nature -- 'Notwithstanding the inclemency of the weather': The role of precipitation in the catchment -- 'Fair streams were palsied in their onward course': The desirability of flowing waters -- 'A useless weight of water': Responding to stagnancy, mud and morasses -- Between 'the water famine and the fire demon': Drying up the catchment -- Mirror, mirror? The reflective catchment -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: Water reflects culture. This book is a detailed analysis of hydrological change in Australia's largest inland waterway in Australia, the Gippsland Lakes in Victoria, in the first 70 years of white settlement.
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Intro -- List of maps, figures and tables -- Acknowledgements -- Maps -- Introduction -- Making the circle round: Perceptions of hydrology through time -- The earth's thoughtful lords? Nineteenth-century views of water and nature -- 'Notwithstanding the inclemency of the weather': The role of precipitation in the catchment -- 'Fair streams were palsied in their onward course': The desirability of flowing waters -- 'A useless weight of water': Responding to stagnancy, mud and morasses -- Between 'the water famine and the fire demon': Drying up the catchment -- Mirror, mirror? The reflective catchment -- Bibliography -- Index.

Water reflects culture. This book is a detailed analysis of hydrological change in Australia's largest inland waterway in Australia, the Gippsland Lakes in Victoria, in the first 70 years of white settlement.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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