Searching for the Snowy
Published on 1. August 1994
Book
Hardback
300 pages
978-1-86373-559-9 (ISBN)
Description
George Seddon portrays an area rich in myth and legend. He provides a view of the region as environmental history - linking successive behaviours towards Snowy lands with major events in Australian history, and interweaving natural history. He looks at the way the Snowy river and its topography have influenced patterns of settlement and, conversely, how humans have altered this landscape. "Searching for the Snowy" is not just a regional history of one of Australia's wilder environments - Seddon also questions our relationship with the land and analyzes the significance of this on the Australian national psyche. This book is a fusion of history, travelogue, anthropology, geology, hydrology and environmentalism.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Sydney
Australia
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
b&w illustrations, colour illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 230 mm
Width: 155 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-86373-559-9 (9781863735599)
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Content
Introduction - a Snowy River reader. Part 1 The high country and the Monaro: physical setting - a preliminary survey; gold into water - the Snowy Mountains schemes; Burnt Hut to Byadbo; Bairds Crossing to Burnt Hut; men from Snowy River; river patterns - north of the border; first comers - the Ngarigo; traveller's tales - Lhotsky and Lingard. Part 2 South to the border and the southern ocean: travelling south - early exploration and settlement; the Barry War and the Snowy River Road; land form and mining; Alfred William Howitt and the Snowy River volcanics; the Buchan Group and the Snowy below Buchan; more traveller's tales - a trip through Croajingolong with Baldwin Spencer; floods - changing and managing the river; changing and managing the land; disposession - the Krauatungalung. Appendices: when wild horses roamed East Gippsland; list of plants; list of animals and birds.