Four Rivers
Collected Responses on the Don and Dee Rivers (North-East Scotland) and the Derbarl Yerrigan and Dyarlgarro Beeliar (Swan and Canning Rivers, Western Australia)
- Paperback
300 pages
- Release Date
1 December 2022
Summary
The cities Perth, Australia, and Aberdeen, Scotland, have received relatively little attention as specific geographical-cultural locales. Often perceived as industrial, isolated, and lacking romantic association, they nevertheless have rich historical, narrative, and creative traditions that characterize interactions between humans and place, particularly along the length of their four rivers. Anyone who heard the cities Perth and Aberdeen mentioned in the same sentence would likely assume th…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781760802189 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1760802182 |
| Author: | Jo Jones, Neil Curtis |
| Publisher: | UWA Publishing |
| Imprint: | UWA Publishing |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 300 |
| Release Date: | 1 December 2022 |
| Weight: | 500g |
| Dimensions: | 159mm x 228mm |
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Jo Jones
Neil Curtis was born in Glasgow in 1964, and came to Aberdeen in 1988 where he is now head of museums and special collections. He studied archaeology (Glasgow, 1986), museum studies (Leicester, 1988) and education (Aberdeen, 1995). He is a member of the Museums Associations’ ethics committee and the Museums Gallery Scotland Recognition Committee.
Jo Jones is an Associate Professor in Literary and Cultural Studies at Curtin University in Western Australia. Her key research areas are literary representations of historical narratives, literary gothic, deep time and literatures of place. In 2018 Jo published Falling Backwards: Australian Historical Fiction and The History Wars with UWAP, which won the 2019 Niall Lucy Award. In recent years, Jo has worked extensively on the literature of rivers and the theory of deep mapping.
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