Matthew Higgins 'The Declined, the Gifted and the Desired: Four Canberra Rivers'
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Thursday, 7 March 2019 - 12:30pm
Matthew Higgins is an historian, writer, speaker, photographer and citizen scientist, who has worked for many of our national cultural institutions. He will present natural and historical information about four rivers near Canberra, and detail some of his experiences on them.
Abstract
This talk is about four rivers near Canberra, but is not just about the actual watercourses. It is about the broader valley environment in each case, about many of the various lifeforms found in each of these valleys, there’s some prehistory and settler history, and there are aspects of Matthew's own experiences around these valleys..
Biography
Matthew Higgins is an historian, writer, speaker, photographer and citizen scientist, who has worked for many of our national cultural institutions. A Canberra resident from 1982, he recently moved to Bega. Matthew’s work on the original survey of the ACT-NSW Border won a heritage award in 1997. His 1999 book, A Century of Learning, jointly won a national community history award and his 2009 book, Rugged Beyond Imagination: Stories from an Australian Mountain Region, was shortlisted for the ACT Book of the Year Award. Matthew’s first novel Seeing Through Snow was launched in 2017, and his latest book about the high country, Bold Horizon, was launched in 2018. He has been writing articles for The Canberra Times since 1984. Matthew has been bushwalking and exploring rivers in Canberra and the high country for more than 30 years.
