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Yarra Birrarung
Artists, Writers and the River
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Yarra Birrarung - Artists, Writers and the River is an illustrated history of life on the Yarra. Through the lens of artists and writers, the book explores how life has flourished on the river, including recreation, industry, and land use, as well as infrastructure, natural history,...
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Description
Yarra Birrarung - Artists, Writers and the River is an illustrated history of life on the Yarra. Through the lens of artists and writers, the book explores how life has flourished on the river, including recreation, industry, and land use, as well as infrastructure, natural history, and social history.
This is the first comprehensive illustrated story of the Yarra River over the past 200 years, examined through the lives of its creatives.
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ISBN: 9781922779328
Publisher: Melbourne Books
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 28 October 2024
Country: Australia
Imprint: Melbourne Books
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 24.0mm
Width: 223.0mm
Height: 258.0mm
Weight: 1136g
Pages: 256
About the Author
Dr Judith Buckrich was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1950 and emigrated to Melbourne in 1958. She has several entries in the Encyclopedia of Melbourne and Remembering Melbourne 1850-1960. Her book The Village of Ripponlea won a Victorian Community History Award in 2016 and Acland Street- the Grand Lady of St Kilda won the 2018 Fellowship of Australian Writers (VIC) Award for non-fiction. She has also published with Melbourne Books before, releasing The Long and Perilous Journey- A History of Port Melbourne in 2002. At present, she is working on an illustrated history of Fitzroy North. Judith has written her own one-woman shows, short stories, feature articles and essays and worked as a curator, editor and translator. She was Chair of the PEN International Women Writers' Committee from 2003 to 2009 and President of the Melbourne PEN Centre from 1993 to 2005. She is a past President of the Prahran Mechanics Institute Victorian History Library.
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