Black Swan Lake
Life of a Wetland
Distributed for Intellect Ltd
195 pages
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35 halftones
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7 x 9
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© 2013
- Contents
Table of Contents
Contents
List of Illustrations
Part I: Wetlands calendar
1. For a few years
2. Rising waters (August/Djilba/late winter)
3. Other place (September/Djilba/early spring)
4. Other life (October/Kambarang/mid-spring)
5. Wetland world (November/Kambarang/late spring)
6. Drying up (December/Birak/early summer)
7. Dry as a rule (January–February/Birk–Bunuru/mid-, late summer)
8. Still water (March/Bunuru/early autumn)
9. Big puddle (April/Djeran/mid-autumn)
10. Water’s back (June/Makuru/early winter)
11. Birds are back (July/Makuru/mid-winter)
Part II: The downflow
12. The ballad of black swan lake: Homage to Henry David James
13. The black swan: Homage to hoax writers
14. The blackness of the black swan: Homage to Herman Melville
15. Black swamp city: Homage to Hugh Webb
16. The body of the earth and the body of Australia: Homage to the human body
17. The way of water: Homage to Master Moy Lin-Shin
18. The seasons: homage to Henry David Thoreau
19. The black arts of sublime technologies: Homage to Henry Adams
20. People and the place of the whistling kite: Homage to Haliastur sphenurus
21. Living black waters: Homage to horrifying marsh monsters
22. Living with the earth: Homage to home-habitat
1. For a few years
2. Rising waters (August/Djilba/late winter)
3. Other place (September/Djilba/early spring)
4. Other life (October/Kambarang/mid-spring)
5. Wetland world (November/Kambarang/late spring)
6. Drying up (December/Birak/early summer)
7. Dry as a rule (January–February/Birk–Bunuru/mid-, late summer)
8. Still water (March/Bunuru/early autumn)
9. Big puddle (April/Djeran/mid-autumn)
10. Water’s back (June/Makuru/early winter)
11. Birds are back (July/Makuru/mid-winter)
Part II: The downflow
12. The ballad of black swan lake: Homage to Henry David James
13. The black swan: Homage to hoax writers
14. The blackness of the black swan: Homage to Herman Melville
15. Black swamp city: Homage to Hugh Webb
16. The body of the earth and the body of Australia: Homage to the human body
17. The way of water: Homage to Master Moy Lin-Shin
18. The seasons: homage to Henry David Thoreau
19. The black arts of sublime technologies: Homage to Henry Adams
20. People and the place of the whistling kite: Homage to Haliastur sphenurus
21. Living black waters: Homage to horrifying marsh monsters
22. Living with the earth: Homage to home-habitat
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