The meeting of the waters : the Hindmarsh Island affair / Margaret Simons
- Bib ID:
- 2439714
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Simons, Margaret, 1960-
- Description:
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- Sydney : Hodder Headline : c2003
- xvi, 512 pages :; maps : 24 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0733613489 (paperback)
- Summary:
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The author unravels the complexities that surround the construction of the Hindmarsh Island Bridge, and probes beyond the conventional picture of a commercial venture stymied by fraudulent claims and bureaucratic interference. Here is a story that goes to the heart of who we are as a nation, to the nature of truth, history and equity.
- Notes:
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- "A Hodder book"
- Includes bibliographical references: (p. [477]-501) and index.
- Subject:
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- Sacred sites (Aboriginal Australian) -- South Australia -- Hindmarsh Island
- Environmental protection -- South Australia -- Hindmarsh Island
- Ngarrindjeri / Narrinjeri people (S69) (SA SI54-13)
- Cultural heritage - Ownership issues
- Cultural heritage - Protection
- Sites - Sites of significance
- Anthropology - Theory and criticism
- Stories and motifs
- Hindmarsh Island Bridge (S.A.)
- Hindmarsh Island (S.A.)
- Kumarangk / Hindmarsh Island (SE SA SI54-13)
- Copyright:
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2003
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