{"product_id":"black-swan-lake-life-of-a-wetland-9781841507040","title":"Black Swan Lake: Life of a Wetland","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTracing the life of the plants and animals of Forrestdale Lake through the six seasons of the local indigenous people, the first part of \u003ci\u003eBlack Swan Lake\u003c\/i\u003e presents a wetlands calendar over a yearly cycle of the rising, falling and drying waters of this internationally important wetland in south-western Australia. The second part of this book considers issues and explores themes from the first part, including a cultural history of the seasons and the black swan. \u003ci\u003eBlack Swan Lake\u003c\/i\u003e is a book of nature writing and environmental history and philosophy arising from living in a particular place with other beings. The book is a guide to living simply and sustainably with the earth in troubled times and places by making and maintaining a strong attachment and vital connection to a local place and its flora and fauna. Local places and their living processes sustain human and other life on this living earth.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePART I: Wetlands calendar  Chapter 1: For a few years Chapter 2: Rising waters (August\/Djilba\/late winter)  Chapter 3: Other place (September\/Djilba\/early spring)  Chapter 4: Other life (October\/Kambarang\/mid-spring)  Chapter 5: Wetland world (November\/Kambarang\/late spring)  Chapter 6: Drying up (December\/Birak\/early summer)  Chapter 7: Dry as a rule (January–February\/Birak–Bunuru\/mid-, late summer)  Chapter 8: Still water (March\/Bunuru\/early autumn) Chapter 9: Big puddle (April\/Djeran\/mid-autumn) Chapter 10: Water’s back (June\/Makuru\/early winter)  Chapter 11: Birds are back (July\/Makuru\/mid-winter) PART II: The downflow  Chapter 12: The ballad of black swan lake: Homage to Henry David James  Chapter 13: The black swan: Homage to hoax writers  Chapter 14: The blackness of the black swan: Homage to Herman Melville Chapter 15: Black swamp city: Homage to Hugh Webb  Chapter 16: The body of the earth and the body of Australia: Homage to the human body  Chapter 17: The way of water: Homage to Master Moy Lin-Shin  Chapter 18: The seasons: Homage to Henry David Thoreau  Chapter 19: The black arts of sublime technologies: Homage to Henry Adams  Chapter 20: People and place of the whistling kite: Homage to Haliastur sphenurus  Chapter 21: Living black waters: Homage to horrifying marsh monsters  Chapter 22: Living with the earth: Homage to home-habitat","brand":"Intellect Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042928197975,"sku":"9781841507040","price":34.15,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/black-swan-lake-life-of-a-wetland-9781841507040","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}