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The mighty Murray / written & illustrated by John Nicholson
Bib ID 1754753
Format BookBook
Author
Nicholson, John, 1950-
 
Description Crows Nest, N.S.W. : Allen & Unwin, 2002 
48 p. : ill. ; 28 cm. 
ISBN 1865085650 :  1865085642 
Summary

This book is an across-the-curriculum account of Australia's greatest river system as it is and was, with many stories about the people who lived on it or in the Murray Valley - from archaeological finds and Aboriginal legend to riverboat traders and dam engineers.

Full contents
  • 1. A great river
  • 2. The first people
  • 3. Explorers and overlanders
  • 4. Riverboats
  • 5. Settlers and irrigators
  • 6. Engineering the Murray
  • 7. Life and death for the once-mighty Murray?
 
Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 47) and index.

School students.

Subjects Aboriginal Australians - Murray River Region (N.S.W.-S. Aust.) - History.  |  Pioneers - Murray River Region (N.S.W.-S. Aust.)  |  Murray River (N.S.W.-S. Aust.) - History - Juvenile literature.  |  Murray River (N.S.W.-S. Aust.) - Description and travel.  |  Murray River (N.S.W.-S. Aust.) - Commerce.  |  Murray River (N.S.W.-S. Aust.) - Environmental conditions.

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