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[Review] This Place You Know,
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— Review of This Place You Know 2019 single work biography ;(p. 617-621)'It would be unbearable to think this story should lie untold. Drawn from her mother’s personal memoir and her own memories and archives, Houen writes about their hardworking passionate lives in a Godforsaken but picturesque patch of marginal land on the banks of the Murrumbidgee in Hay, NSW. Water shortage then was a family battle and now it is a national and global one, with foreign water ownership in the Murray-Darling basin at 20.9% (Chan 2019).' (Introduction)
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[Review] In Search of the Woman Who Sailed the World,
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— Review of In Search of the Woman Who Sailed the World 2020 single work biography ;(p. 623-625)'Danielle Clode writes in the first chapter on her subject, Jeanne Barret:
'All that is left of Jeanne today are a few fragmentary traces in the archives, a handful of documents, a signature here or there, a reported conversation and descriptions from others, some malicious but mostly admiring (10).'
(Introduction)
