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'In 1972 Lake Pedder in Tasmania's untamed south-west was flooded to build a dam. Wilderness photographer Olegas Truchanas, who had spent years campaigning passionately to save the magnificent fresh water lake, had finally lost. The campaign, the first of its kind in Australia, paved the way for later conservation successes, and turned Truchanas into a Tasmanian legend.
Pedder Dreaming quietly evokes the man, the time and the place. Truchanas, a Lithuanian émigré, is a stalwart adventurer, loving family man, activist, thinker, survivor and artist. Australia on the cusp of environmental awareness is the time, and Lake Pedder and the south-west of Tasmania, the place - wild, pristine, wondrous.
Through those who were closest to him, Truchanas emerges, as does his influence on early conservation in Tasmania, and the small group of landscape artists, the Sunday Group, who admired his passion for the lake and were inspired by it. Stunningly illustrated with original Truchanas photographs from the 1950s, '60s and '70s, and artwork from the Sunday Group, Pedder Dreaming captures the brutality, raw beauty and vulnerability of the Tasmanian wilderness and the legacy of one man who had the vision to fight for it.' (Publisher's website)
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Works about this Work
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UQP Bookshelf
2011
single work
review
— Appears in: Contact , Summer 2011; (p. 34)
— Review of Pedder Dreaming : Olegas Truchanas and a Lost Tasmanian Wilderness 2011 single work biography -
Non Fiction
2011
single work
review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 12 -13 November 2011; (p. 23)
— Review of Pedder Dreaming : Olegas Truchanas and a Lost Tasmanian Wilderness 2011 single work biography -
Pick of the Week
2011
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 15-16 October 2011; (p. 35)
— Review of Pedder Dreaming : Olegas Truchanas and a Lost Tasmanian Wilderness 2011 single work biography -
Off the Shelf : Tasmania
2011
single work
review
— Appears in: The Saturday Age , 1 October 2011; (p. 30)
— Review of Pedder Dreaming : Olegas Truchanas and a Lost Tasmanian Wilderness 2011 single work biography -
Cover Notes
2011
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 25 September 2011; (p. 17)
— Review of Pedder Dreaming : Olegas Truchanas and a Lost Tasmanian Wilderness 2011 single work biography
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Cover Notes
2011
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 25 September 2011; (p. 17)
— Review of Pedder Dreaming : Olegas Truchanas and a Lost Tasmanian Wilderness 2011 single work biography -
Off the Shelf : Tasmania
2011
single work
review
— Appears in: The Saturday Age , 1 October 2011; (p. 30)
— Review of Pedder Dreaming : Olegas Truchanas and a Lost Tasmanian Wilderness 2011 single work biography -
Pick of the Week
2011
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 15-16 October 2011; (p. 35)
— Review of Pedder Dreaming : Olegas Truchanas and a Lost Tasmanian Wilderness 2011 single work biography -
Non Fiction
2011
single work
review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 12 -13 November 2011; (p. 23)
— Review of Pedder Dreaming : Olegas Truchanas and a Lost Tasmanian Wilderness 2011 single work biography -
UQP Bookshelf
2011
single work
review
— Appears in: Contact , Summer 2011; (p. 34)
— Review of Pedder Dreaming : Olegas Truchanas and a Lost Tasmanian Wilderness 2011 single work biography
Awards
- 2013 winner Tasmania Book Prizes Tasmanian Literary Awards — Margaret Scott Prize — Margaret Scott Prize - People's Choice Award
- Lake Pedder, Southwest Tasmania, Tasmania,