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Melbourne: Text Publishing, Date: 2005. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 245 pages, indexed, illustrated. The pages are tanned, else clean, unmarked and solid. Appears unread. "It was John Wedge, Batman's private surveyor, who named the Yarra Yarra. In September 1835 he was at the Turning Basin with some Kulin and heard them identify the river as it came over the Falls as, he wrote, 'Yarrow Yarrow'. It was only some months later that Wedge discovered they had been referring to the pattern and movement of water over the Falls, not the river itself. And ever since, it has been the Yarra's fate to be misunderstood: maligned for its muddiness, ill-used as sewer and tip; scooped, sculpted, straightened and stressed, 'cleaned up' to the detriment of its natural inhabitants; built-over, under and beside; worked mercilessly and then bridged almost to maritime extinction. In Kristin Otto's superbly entertaining new history, the whole sorry tale is laid bare. From the creation stories of Kulin owners and geologist blow-ins (and Robert Hoddle's bad-tempered expedition to the headwaters) to the twenty-first-century waterside building boom, Otto traces the course of Melbourne's murky river. Erudite, affectionate and witty, with more meanders and diversions than the river itself, Yarra is both a fascinating read and a fitting tribute to the 'noble stream'." (publisher) 2005. Text ...
ISBN10: 1920885781, ISBN13: 9781920885786, [publisher: Text Publishing, Melbourne] Softcover First Edition 245 pages, indexed, illustrated. The pages are tanned, else clean, unmarked and solid. Appears unread. ""It was John Wedge, Batman's private surveyor, who named the Yarra Yarra. In September 1835 he was at the Turning Basin with some Kulin and heard them identify the river as it came over the Falls as, he wrote, 'Yarrow Yarrow'. It was only some months later that Wedge discovered they had been referring to the pattern and movement of water over the Falls, not the river itself. And ever since, it has been the Yarra's fate to be misunderstood: maligned for its muddiness, ill-used as sewer and tip; scooped, sculpted, straightened and stressed, 'cleaned up' to the detriment of its natural inhabitants; built-over, under and beside; worked mercilessly and then bridged almost to maritime extinction. In Kristin Otto's superbly entertaining new history, the whole sorry tale is laid bare. From the creation stories of Kulin owners and geologist blow-ins (and Robert Hoddle's bad-tempered expedition to the headwaters) to the twenty-first-century waterside building boom, Otto traces the course of Melbourne's murky river. Erudite, affectionate and witty, with more meanders and diversions than the river itself, Yarra is both a fascinating read and a fitting tribute to the 'noble stream'." (publisher) ...
ISBN10: 1920885781, ISBN13: 9781920885786, [publisher: Text Publishing Company] Softcover Gut/Very good: Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit wenigen Gebrauchsspuren an Einband, Schutzumschlag oder Seiten. / Describes a book or dust jacket that does show some signs of wear on either the binding, dust jacket or pages. [Berlin, Germany] [Publication Year: 2005]
ISBN10: 1920885781, ISBN13: 9781920885786, [publisher: Text Publishing Company, Melbourne, Australia] Softcover text clean and unmarked. binding tight. covers have very light wear. edges of pages have very light wear and some light toning. [Eugene, OR, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2005]
ISBN10: 1920885781, ISBN13: 9781920885786, [publisher: Text Publishing Company] Softcover Gut/Very good: Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit wenigen Gebrauchsspuren an Einband, Schutzumschlag oder Seiten. / Describes a book or dust jacket that does show some signs of wear on either the binding, dust jacket or pages. [Berlin, Germany] [Publication Year: 2005]
ISBN10: 1920885781, ISBN13: 9781920885786, [publisher: Text Publishing Company] Softcover Very Good [liverpool, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2005]
ISBN10: 1920885781, ISBN13: 9781920885786, [publisher: Text Publishing, Melbourne] Softcover 245pp., Pictorial illustrated covers with small faint creasing to lower corners- b/w illust. inside covers, signed title-page "Kristin Otto", author's note, b/w plts. & illust. & text, photos- b/w, maps, plans, sources, index. In Otto's hands the Yarra reveals itself. Size: Octavo [Melbourne, VIC, Australia] [Publication Year: 2005]
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