Coast : a history of the New South Wales edge / Ian Hoskins.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hoskins, Ian, 1962- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Coastal zone management.

History.

Human ecology.

Coastal ecology.

Urbanization.

Coasts.

New South Wales--History.

New South Wales.

Coasts--Australia--New South Wales--History.

Pacific Coast (Australia)--History.

Pacific Coast (Australia).

Urbanization--Australia--New South Wales--History.

Human ecology--Australia--New South Wales--History.

Urbanization--Australia--Pacific Coast--History.

Coastal ecology--Australia--New South Wales--History.

Human ecology--Australia--Pacific Coast--History.

Coastal zone management--Australia--New South Wales--History.

Australia--Pacific Coast.

Physical Description:

447 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 24 cm

Other Title:

History of the New South Wales edge

Place of Publication:

Sydney, N.S.W. : NewSouth Publishing, University of New South Wales Press, 2013.

Summary:

From Eden to Byron Bay the New South Wales coast is more than 2000 kilometres long, with 130 estuaries, 100 coastal lakes and a rich history. This, the first history written of the New South Wales coast, traces our relationship with this stretch of land and sea starting millennia ago when Aboriginal people feasted on shellfish and perfected the art of building bark canoes, to our present obsession with the beach as a place to live or holiday. Leading us through the European fascination with marine life, the attempts to establish a whaling industry, the fear of seaborne invasion which led to the creation of a navy of our own in 1911 through to the rise of our unstoppable enthusiasm for surfing and fishing, Ian Hoskins argues that our current enthralment with the coast began more recently than we might think.

Contents:

Natural histories

The first coast people

Claiming the coast

Convicts, coal, cedar and cane

Harvest of the sea

Boats on the coast

Harbours and lights

Defending the coast

Embracing the coast

Sea change

Heritage and the coast.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 426-434) and index.

ISBN:

9781742232706

1742232701

OCLC:

835737411