The Catch
australia's love affair with fishing
$29.97
- Paperback
208 pages
- Release Date
28 August 2023
Summary
The Catch: A History of Fishing in Australia
Bringing her personal passion for throwing in a line, author and historian Anna Clark celebrates the enduring pleasure of fishing.
In every coastal town in Australia, there’s a bait shop and a boat ramp. Fishing rods are strung up in laundries and garages around the country, waiting for their next outing. Walk over a bridge, look across to a wharf and there will be people casting a line. Many people have a special fishing spot, an…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781761342202 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1761342207 |
| Author: | Anna Clark |
| Publisher: | Penguin Random House Australia |
| Imprint: | Penguin Random House Australia |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 208 |
| Release Date: | 28 August 2023 |
| Weight: | 297g |
| Dimensions: | 234mm x 154mm x 17mm |
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About The Author
Anna Clark
Anna Clark is an award-winning historian, author, and public commentator. She has a PhD in History from the University of Melbourne and currently holds a prestigious Australian Research Council Future Fellowship at the Australian Centre for Public History at UTS. Anna is an internationally recognised scholar in Australian history, history education, and the role of history in everyday life. She has written influential books such as Making Australian History, The History Wars (with Stuart Macintyre), which won the NSW Premier’s Prize and Queensland Premier’s Prize for History, History’s Children (about students’ attitudes to Australian history), and Private Lives, Public History, as well as two history books for children (Convicted! - listed as a Children’s Book Council of Australia notable book - and Explored!).
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