River Dreams

River DreamsAuthor: Ian Tyrrell ISBN: 9781742235745 Publisher: NewSouth Publishing Year first published: 01 Mar 2018 Pages: 304 Format: Paperback softback In the beginning, there was the river before the beach, before the drain, before the dredging, before the dams, before numerous other actions that altered the stream. River Dreams reveals the complex history of the Cooks River in south eastern Sydney a river renowned as Australia's most altered and polluted.

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