George Seddon (academic)

George Seddon

Seddon held AM; BA (Hons); MSc; PhD, University of Minnesota; Hon DLit, University of Western Australia; Hon FAILA; Hon FRAPI; FTS.

Seddon studied English at the University of Melbourne, and later received an MSc and a PhD in Geology at the University of Minnesota. He held the

.

Seddon published 217 papers and numerous books, many of which have won awards. These awards include three

Academy of Science

, in 1996.

He was an Honorary Fellow of both the

Fremantle

for 2001.

Seddon died in his Fremantle home on 9 May 2007. He had a son, Jack and a daughter Polly.

Bibliography

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Books

• Swan River Landscapes (Perth: University of Western Australia Press. 1970)
• Seddon, George (1972).
  OCLC 35572047
  .
• Man and landscape in Australia: towards an ecological vision (Aust. UNESCO Committee for Man and the Biosphere, pub No. 2, Canberra: Australian Government Publishing Service, 1976)
• A City and Its Setting: Images of Perth. (Fremantle: Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 1987)
• Searching for the Snowy: an Environmental History. (St Leonards, Sydney:
  Allen and Unwin
  , 1994)
• Swan Song: reflections on Perth and Western Australia 1956 -1995 (Centre for Studies in Australian Literature: University of Western Australia, 1995)
• Landprints: Reflections on Place and Landscape (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997)
• Looking at an Old Suburb: A Walking Guide to Four Blocks of Fremantle with Barbara Haddy (Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 2000)
• Garnett, T. R. (2001). George Seddon (ed.). From the country: an anthology. Melbourne: Bloomings Books.
• The Old Country: Australian Landscapes, Plants and People (Cambridge University Press, 2005)

Articles, chapters and other contributions

• "The Nature of Nature" in Westerly (Issue 36:4, pp. 7–14, 1991)
• "The Australian Back Yard" in Australian Popular Culture ed. Ian Craven. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994)
• "Return to Portugal" in Best Essays of 1998, edited by Peter Craven (Melbourne: Bookman Press, 1998)
• "Imagining the West" in Imagining Australia, ed. Silvia Albertazzi, Sheila M. Downing, Monica Turci. (Rome: Vecchiarelli Editore, 1998)
• "Land and Language" in Meanjin (Issue 58:2, pp 140–152, 1999)
• "Saving the Throwaway River" in Australian Geographical Studies (Issue 37:3, pp 314–321, 1999)
• "Alien Invaders" in The Mediterranean Garden (Issue 18: pp 42–45, 1999)
• "The Mediterranean Garden in Australia" in The Mediterranean Garden (Issue 17: pp 18–26, 1999)
• Seddon, George (March 2003). "Groundswell". Correspondence. Quarterly Essay. 9: 107–108.

Radio appearances

• Interview regarding "Searching for the Snowy" in 'Green and Practical' programme (ABC Radio National. Broadcast 12 November 1994)

References

External links

• Hogan, Trevor (25 May 2007). "Academic couldn't be fenced in". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 25 January 2021.