Black Swan Lake : Life of a Wetland.

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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-weste...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Giblett, Rodney James
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bristol : Intellect, 2013.
Temas:
Wetland ecology > Australia > Armadale (W.A.)
NATURE > Ecology.
NATURE > Ecosystems & Habitats > Wilderness.
SCIENCE > Environmental Science.
SCIENCE > Life Sciences > Ecology.
NATURE / General
Wetland ecology
Western Australia > Armadale
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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).
  • 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.
  • 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.

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