Among the most productive ecosystems on earth, wetlands are also some of the most vulnerable. Australian Wetland Cultures argues for the cultural value of wetlands. Through a focus on swamps and their conservation, the volume makes a unique contribution to the growing interdisciplinary field of the environmental humanities. The authors investigate the crucial role of swamps in Australian society through the idea of wetland cultures. The broad historical and cultural range of the book spans pre-settlement indigenous Australian cultures, nineteenth-century European colonization, and contemporary Australian engagements with wetland habitats. The contributors situate the Australian emphasis in international cultural and ecological contexts. Case studies from Perth, Western Australia, provide practical examples of the conservation of wetlands as sites of interlinked natural and cultural heritage. The volume will appeal to readers with interests in anthropology, Australian studies, cultural studies, ecological science, environmental studies, and heritage protection.

Under a man-made lake on an Aegean Isle, we see the back cover photo of a sculptured message. This is Atlantis' treasury location. Over 30 enclosed satellite photos of this location are no longer available via satellite. In 2013, someone terminated the satellite feed and desecrated the site by painting it with earth tone colors. Greek historian Pliny and Hebrew prophets Ezekiel and Zechariah describe Atlantis' surviving-treasury like 'Fort Knox on Steroids.' Who is salvaging the Atlantis Treasury hoard? Poseidon named it the Atlantic Island; Homer, Pausanias and the Greeks called it Chryse; Ezekiel, Jeremiah and Zechariah called it Tyrus; Socrates told Plato, who wrote the story, calling it ATLANTIS. Plato gives us the location: ..".for this sea which is within the straits of Heracles is only a harbor, having a narrow entrance...," and ..".the sea in those parts is impassable and impenetrable, because there is a shoal of mud in the way; and this was caused by the subsidence of the island." The harbor was filled in by the subsidence of the island. Find the harbor, and we have found Atlantis. Mystery solved Now we understand the whole story. Under the subsidence of the island is a second treasury, containing many of the gold statues and artifacts that were on the surface of Atlantis, created by earthquakes and tsunamis that hit it. History says this treasury location is virgin territory for archaeologists. An immediate investigation of this site needs to be conducted. Atlantis was only a part of a larger network of civilizations controlling trade and wealth in the Mediterranean from 1500 BC to 500 BC. Sea trade was dominant and Atlantis was right in the middle of it. Evidence reveals that the 'Sea People' invasions and conquest of Mediterranean civilizations was carried out by this network. Dates and a list of these invasions are in the book. The greed and lust for wealth by this network eventually focused upon Jerusalem. In 924 BC, Egyptian Pharaoh Shishak, with partners, invaded Israel taking all from Jerusalem's temple, including the Ark of the Covenant. The evidence points its bony finger at Atlantis' treasury location, on this Aegean Isle, as the resting place for the Ark. The evidence reveals members of this network worked together to conquer and seize assets, and that they constructed 4 underground treasuries. The location of these undiscovered sites are documented, along with available photos. Over 100 photographs are in the book. Evidence also points to One of the Seven Sages of Greece as the original visitor and author of Platos' story of Atlantis. He was a Phoenician, an astronomer, a mathematician and was an associate of Solon and the Egyptian priest that initiated Platos' dialogues of Timaeus and Critias. He was trusted and esteemed by the king of Atlantis, who showed him inside the 'off limits' temple of Poseidon. The evidence for this book generates from the first hand manuscripts of ancient Mediterranean historians and geographers, as well as the ancient Hebrew prophets. By carefully piecing together their information, we have assembled an accurate picture of events occurring at that time in the Mediterranean. The location and history of the Island of Atlantis are documented, in this text, to a certainty beyond a reasonable doubt. The evidence uncovered and assembled is crystal clear. The clouded mystery of Atlantis has finally been solved by the texts of the ancient writers, combined with modern day investigative technology. The mystery is now the biography of Atlantis. Enjoy the book.