River Dreams
UNSW Press | English | 2018 | ISBN-10: 1742235743 | 336 Pages | EPUB | 6.72 MB
by Ian Tyrrell (Author)
In the beginning, there was the river - before the beach, before the drain, before the dredging, before the dams, before numerous other actions that altered the stream.
River Dreams reveals the complex history of the Cooks River in south-eastern Sydney - a river renowned as Australia's most altered and polluted. While nineteenth century developers called it 'improvement', the sugar mill, tanneries, and factories that lined the banks of Sydney's Cooks River had drastic consequences for the health of the river. Local Aboriginal people became fringe dwellers, and over time the river became severely compromised, with many ecosystems damaged or destroyed. Later, a large section was turned into a concrete canal, and in the late 1940s the river was rerouted for the expansion of Sydney Airport.
While much of the river has been rehabilitated in recent decades by passionate local groups and through government initiatives, it continues to be a source of controversy with rapid apartment development placing new stresses on the region. River Dreams is a timely reminder of the need to tread cautiously in seeking to dominate, or ignore, our environment.
A beautiful book that reminds us that Australians are river people as much as we are bush or coast dwellers.' - IAN HOSKINS
Ian Tyrrell is a former Scientia Professor of History at UNSW now Emeritus Professor of History at the university. Born in Brisbane, he was educated at the University of Queensland and Duke University, where he was a Fulbright Scholar and James B. Duke Fellow. He was shortlisted for the NSW Premier's History Award for Crisis of the Wasteful Nation: Empire and Conservation in Theodore Roosevelt's America (2015) and True Gardens of the Gods: Californian-Australian Environmental Reform, 1860-1930 (1999).
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