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SNOWY: The Making of Modern Australia by Brad Collis (Paperback, 2015)
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Like new
- Seller notes
- “like new”
- Publication Year
- 2015
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- Book Title
- Snowy: the Making of Modern Australia
- Publisher
- Coretext
- Genre
- Children & Young Adults
- Topic
- Engineering & Technology, History
- Number of Pages
- 336 Pages
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The Snowy Mountains Scheme changed Australia forever. A country founded on stolid British stock almost overnight became one of the world's great pancultures. Tens of thousands of workers from more than 30 lands poured into what was the undisturbed pastoral realm of the high country stockman, the southern Outback. As they drilled and tunnelled into the mountains their energy and skills gave the country a mighty push into the vanguard of the twentieth century. The vibrant interaction of their many diverse cultures and the scale of the project in terms of technology made the Scheme an engineering wonder. In 1967 and again in 1997 the American Society of Civil Engineers ranked the Scheme as one of the great engineering achievements of the twentieth century. Most of the people who built the Snowy Scheme came from war-torn Europe and many had been recent and bitter enemies. But by and large they left their hatreds behind in their determination to grasp this opportunity of a second chance. Dispossessed by war, they worked with great energy and entrepreneurial drive to better themselves and their new homeland. The building of the Snowy Mountains Scheme put Australia at the forefront of world construction technology; an incredible feat for a young country with an economy then based primarily on agriculture. If ever there was a national monument from which a people could draw pride and confidence it is the Snowy Scheme. It has been admired the world over for its political vision, its social achievements and its engineering excellence - yet recent generations of Australians have grown up barely conscious of its existence. Perhaps this is because it has operated faultlessly and without fanfare for more than half a century and perhaps also because its most extraordinary features are hidden beneath the mountains - out of sight of the thousands of people who annually flock along its access roads to ski slopes. The Snowy Scheme was the product of people with vision, from a time when people had the courage to dream and build on those dreams. The imagination and strength of Prime Minister Ben Chifley, his Minister for Works, Nelson Lemmon and Sir William Hudson, the engineer, gave wings to a vision that emerged in the nineteenth century and which is now projecting into the twenty-first century. As humanity faces an uncertain future from global warming through the Greenhouse consequences of burning fossil fuels, hydro-electricity remains one of the cleanest renewable sources of power. In the first decade of the 21st Century the Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Scheme was offsetting an estimated five million tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions a year and was crucial to Australia's initial efforts to meet its international obligations on greenhouse reductions. The Snowy Scheme's two main elements, one based on rivers feeding the Murrumbidgee River and the other based on those feeding the Murray River, involved the blasting of 12 tunnels through the mountains, the building of 16 dams and seven power stations - two of them deep underground. Today almost nothing remains of the settlements where men and women lived, worked, dreamed and died, and built not just dams and installations, but the foundations of a new nation. Their homes and workplaces have been returned to the bush. But there remains a powerful human legacy. The Snowy was unique in bringing together people of every creed and culture and calling them all, Australian. The lesson of the Snowy is that when the dispossessed are given the chance to rebuild their lives, they enrich and advance their host society. The construction of the Snowy Scheme changed Australia from a country that was agricultural and British to a country that was industrial and multicultural. That legacy lives on as the Scheme continues to provide a historical, technological, and intellectual measure of Australia's progress as a nation. In the last decade of the twentieth century the Snowy Scheme went throug
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Publisher
Coretext
ISBN-13
9780977502936
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Book Title
Snowy: the Making of Modern Australia
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Engineering & Technology, History
Publication Year
2015
Type
Textbook
Genre
Children & Young Adults
Number of Pages
336 Pages
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Australia
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- r***i (48)- Feedback left by buyer.Past monthVerified purchaseFast delivery and item was carefully packaged so arrived in excellent condition. Great value and exactly as described. Highly recommended!
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- r***i (48)- Feedback left by buyer.Past monthVerified purchaseFast delivery and item was carefully packaged so arrived in excellent condition. Great value and exactly as described. Highly recommended!
- u***i (56)- Feedback left by buyer.Past 6 monthsVerified purchaseItem arrived and was as described, it was well packed and postage included tracking, I would happily buy from this Seller again.
- 1***l (129)- Feedback left by buyer.Past 6 monthsVerified purchaseThe cookbook was as described, in really great condition considering the age. It was well packaged for shipping and arrived quickly and undamaged. I highly recommend this seller.CWA of nsw cookery book : home style cooking 14th ed 1978 (#276285002203)