They say you can't step in the same river twice, and it's true that the Yarra has been hugely changed - but this book is a glorious and timely reminder that things can also be changed for the better.Nature writer Harry Saddler hops, skips and jumps his way along, beside, on and even in the Yarra River from source to mouth, reveling in its hidden beauty, getting close to platypuses, kingfishers, Krefft's gliders and the occasional seal, and meeting many of the swimmers, bushwalkers, ecologists and traditional owners who are quietly and tenaciously restoring the river, patch by patch.Optimistic, inspiring and heartfelt, A Clear Flowing Yarra is a passionate love letter to the river that shapes Melbourne, and an evocative vision of what it is now and what it can be.
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- English
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A Clear Flowing Yarra
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Biological SciencesTable of contents
- Cover
- About the Author
- Title
- Dedication
- Copyright
- Author’s Note
- Contents
- Prologue
- A Messy River is a Healthy River
- Platypus
- A Gathering of Everything
- Powerful owl
- We Don’t think like that
- Brush-Tailed Phascogale
- Many People putting together
- Short-Finned eel
- Drawing People back to the River
- Australian fur seal
- The Wisdom of the group
- Swamp Wallaby
- A Mighty beast of the Ecology
- Snake
- What it actually takes to care forever
- Rakali
- There is no ‘they’
- Grey-Headed flying fox
- We started because of a Flea
- Sugar (Krefft’s) glider
- Keep the Birrarung alive
- Azure Kingfisher
- Resources to help the Yarra
- Traditional owners of the Birrarung
- Responsible Authorities
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