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1 online resource (210 pages) |
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Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Illustrations; PART I: Wetlands Calendar; Chapter 1: For a Few Years; Chapter 2: Rising Waters (August/Djilba/Late Winter); Chapter 3: Other Place (September/Djilba/Early Spring); Chapter 4: Other Life (October/Kambarang/Mid-spring); Chapter 5: Wetland World (November/Kambarang/Late Spring); Chapter 6: Drying Up (December/Birak/Early Summer); Chapter 7: Dry as a Rule (January-February/Birak-Bunuru/Mid-, Late Summer); Chapter 8: Still Water (March/Bunuru/Early Autumn); Chapter 9: Big Puddle (April/Djeran/Mid-Autumn). |
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Chapter 10: Water's Back (June/Makuru/Early Winter)Chapter 11: Birds Are Back (July/Makuru/Mid-winter); PART II: The Downflow; Chapter 12: The Ballad of Black Swan Lake: Homage to Henry David James; Chapter 13: The Black Swan: Homage to Hoax Writers; Chapter 14: The Blackness of the Black Swan: Homage to Herman Melville; Chapter 15: Black Swamp City: Homage to Hugh Webb; Chapter 16: The Body of the Earth and the Body of Australia: Homage to the Human Body; Chapter 17: The Way of Water: Homage to Master Moy Lin-Shin; Chapter 18: The Seasons: Homage to Henry David Thoreau. |
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Chapter 19: The Black Arts of Sublime Technologies: Homage to Henry AdamsChapter 20: People and Place of the Whistling Kite: Homage to Haliastur Sphenurus; Chapter 21: Living Black Waters: Homage to Horrifying Marsh Monsters; Chapter 22: Living with the earth: Homage to home-habitat; Back Cover. |
Summary |
Tracing the life of the plants and animals of Forrest dale Lake through the six seasons of the local indigenous people, the first part of Black Swan Lake presents a wetlands calendar over a yearly cycle of the rising, falling and drying waters of this internationally important wetland in south-western Australia. The second part of this book considers issues and explores themes from the first part, including a cultural history of the seasons and the black swan. Black Swan Lake is a book of nature writing and environmental history and philosophy arising from living in a particular place with oth. |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical referenced. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Wetland ecology -- Australia -- Armadale (W.A.)
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Wetland ecology. |
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Australia. |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Giblett, Rod. Black Swan Lake : Life of a Wetland. Bristol : Intellect, ©2013 9781841507040 |
ISBN |
9781783200450 (electronic book) |
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1783200456 (electronic book) |
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9781841507040 |
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