Following the Water environmental history and the hydrological cycle in colonial Gippsland, Australia, 1838–1900
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. Following air, water is our primal need. Unlike many histories, this book looks at the...
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ANU Press
[2019]
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Inhaltsangabe:
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Making the circle round: Perceptions of hydrology through time
- 3. The earth's thoughtful lords? Nineteenth-century views of water and nature
- 4. 'Notwithstanding the inclemency of the weather': The role of precipitation in the catchment
- 5. 'Fair streams were palsied in their onward course': The desirability of flowing waters
- 6. 'A useless weight of water': Responding to stagnancy, mud and morasses
- 7. Between 'the water famine and the fire demon': Drying up the catchment
- 8. Mirror, mirror? The reflective catchment