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Rugged beyond imagination : stories from an Australian mountain region / Matthew Higgins.

Rugged beyond imagination : stories from an Australian mountain region / Matthew Higgins.
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ISBN 9781876944742 (pbk.)
Author Higgins, Matthew, 1957-
Title Rugged beyond imagination : stories from an Australian mountain region / Matthew Higgins.
Publisher and/or associated date/s Canberra : National Museum of Australia Press, 2009.
Description 243 p. : ill., maps, ports. ; 24 cm.
Note Includes index.
2010 ACT Book of the Year Award Short List.
Bibliography Bibliography: p. 231-234.
Contents Preface -- Maps -- Introduction -- A significant place --A shaped place -- A peopled place -- A surviving aboriginal place -- A powerful place -- Part One -- 1,150 years of grazing -- The beginning of settlement -- The impact of the capital -- Working the land -- A summer pilgrimage -- A roof over their heads -- Home life -- Weathering the winter -- Community life -- Growing up in the mountains -- In life and death -- Getting about and keeping in touch -- Words and stories -- A rabbity place -- A changing land -- Hoofbeats through snowgums -- The Namadgi story -- Part Two -- A line along the ranges -- Early survey work -- A capital catchment -- Surveying the border -- Fire, ice and axe -- A fiery land -- From fire to forestry -- The good oil at Tidbinbilla -- Plots and plantings -- A mountain native garden -- Coniferous combinations -- Capturing a catchment -- The first wall across the river -- Raising the wall -- Caring for the catchment -- Roles almost unknown -- A dam in the wild -- Using gravity -- A dam at the top -- Moving ahead -- The skiing pioneers -- From boots to skis -- Centre stage at Franklin -- Khaki on white -- A new role for a new century -- Part Three -- A place of change -- Winds of change -- A past time still remembered -- Seeing through the smoke -- Endnotes -- Select bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgements.
Summary Grand, wild and windswept, the Australian Alps have played a big part in forging the identity of our nation. Rugged Beyond Imagination examines the lesser-known northern Alps, defined by the Namadgi-Tidbinbilla region of the Australian Capital Territory, and pursues its historical links with Kosciuszko National Park.
Local note NMA copy signed by author.
Subjects Mountain life -- Australian Capital Territory -- Namadgi National Park
National characteristics, Australian
Namadgi National Park (A.C.T.) -- History
Australian Alps (N.S.W. and Vic.) -- History
Kosciuszko National Park (N.S.W.) -- History
Call number NMA G 2009
NMA 2009 (2 copies)
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A00715900 NMA G 2009
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