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- First Page
- Preliminary Pages
- Usage and Spelling
- List of Maps
- List of Figures
- Abbreviations
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- Part I: Introducing the Picnic River
- 1. A City River and its Bush
- 2. The Picnic River: Pleasure Grounds and Waste Lands
- Part II: Initial Shock
- 3. Hope, Fear and Planning
- 4. A Tale of Two National Parks
- Part III: Death of the Picnic River
- 5. Outlooks and Oysters
- 6. Sewers, Sociality and Mangrove Swamps
- 7. Garbage: ‘Reclamations’ and Casualties
- Part IV: The ‘Mangrovites’ Fight Back
- 8. Change and the Picnic River
- 9. View from the Heights: Little Salt Pan Creek
- 10. Fishers, Boats and Dredges: Great Moon Bay
- 11. Politics, Picnics and Playing Fields: Lime Kiln Bay
- 12. Mud, ‘Mangrovites’ and Oatley Bay
- 13. Atoms and Airports: Towra Point
- Part V: Conclusions
- 14. Reflections, 1945–80
- 15. Afterword: Disasters, Regenerations and Ambiguities
- Bibliography
