Table of Contents

• Usage and Spelling
• List of Maps
• List of Figures
• Abbreviations
• Acknowledgements
• Preface

Part I: Introducing the Picnic River

A City River and its Bush

The Picnic River: Pleasure Grounds and Waste Lands

Part II: Initial Shock

Hope, Fear and Planning

A Tale of Two National Parks

Part III: Death of the Picnic River

Outlooks and Oysters

Sewers, Sociality and Mangrove Swamps

Garbage: 'Reclamations' and Casualties

Part IV: The ‘Mangrovites’ Fight Back

Change and the Picnic River

View from the Heights: Little Salt Pan Creek

Fishers, Boats and Dredges: Great Moon Bay

Politics, Picnics and Playing Fields: Lime Kiln Bay

Mud, ‘Mangrovites’ and Oatley Bay

Atoms and Airports: Towra Point

Part V: Conclusions

Reflections, 1945–80

Afterword: Disasters, Regenerations and Ambiguities

• Bibliography
• Index