Everything is Water : A river-walking journey - Simon Cleary

Everything is Water

A river-walking journey

By: Simon Cleary

Paperback | 4 June 2024

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Four weeks, 344km and one inspiring river journey

'I want to go with the river's flow, not against it. I want to follow where the river leads - to listen, to observe, hopefully to learn.'

When novelist and experienced hiker Simon Cleary sets off to follow the course of the river that has so influenced his life, he hopes that by walking its banks - from its source to where it empties into the bay - he will better understand the power and impact of this immense waterway on the environment and communities who rely on it.

Cleary's ambitious journey, alone and with companions, explores the ways rivers connect landscapes, ecologies, histories, communities and myth. But his journey along the unpredictable and magnificent Brisbane River threatens to be cut short by one of the wettest autumn months on record. Over four eventful weeks and 344 kilometres we are witness to the river in all its beauty and fury.

Everything is Water considers our complex relationship with nature through flood, drought, time and place. It is an inspiring pilgrimage that invites us to connect with nature and also to navigate our own path.

About the Author

Simon Cleary is the author of three novels, including The Comfort of Figs (2008), which was published after the manuscript was shortlisted for the Queensland Premier's Literary Awards. His second novel, Closer to Stone (2012), was inspired by his experiences in North Africa at the commencement of the Algerian civil war in the 1990s. It went on to win the Queensland Literary Awards People's Choice Award. Simon's third novel, The War Artist, was published in 2019. Everything is Water is his first work of non-fiction. He is a life-long walking and environmental enthusiast, and lives in Brisbane.

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