The Seven Rivers
The Seven Rivers

Author: Douglas Stewart

Publisher: House of Books

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 9781743312353

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The classic account of fly-fishing in Australia and New Zealand. As Stewart makes clear, fishing is about much more than fish. 'Though there is a chapter about swordfish in this book, another about snapper, and even a piece about pig hunting,' wrote Douglas Stewart, '[this] is mostly a book about trout-fishing...I wrote it simply for the pleasure of going fishing again in retrospect along my favourite rivers.' Douglas Stewart loved fishing, but it was the wiley trout that haunted his dreams. Bringing a poet's eye, a sense of whimsy and a generosity of spirit to this classic and celebratory account of fly-fishing in Australia and New Zealand, Stewart proves that even the ones that got away are worth writing about.

Douglas Stewart
Douglas Stewart

Author: Susan P. Ballyn Jenney

Publisher: National Library Australia

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 9780642106216

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Light that Time Has Made
Light that Time Has Made

Author: Sir Paul Hasluck

Publisher: National Library Australia

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 234

ISBN-13: 0642106525

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Collection of essays and reviews written by Paul Hasluck in the years before his death in 1993. Contrasts social attitudes in Australia early in the century with attitudes 60 or more years later. Also presents anecdotes about several of his contemporaries, including Curtin, Evatt, Menzies, Gorton, McMahon and Whitlam. Paul Hasluck was born in the country, son of Salvation Army parents. During his life he was variously: journalist, poet, drama critic, war historian, author, publisher, anthropologist, public servant, diplomat, federal minister and Governor-General. Includes an introduction and postscript by his son, Nicholas Hasluck.