"Steve Strevens has lived on the Murray for almost 40 years. During that time he has fished and swum in its water, climbed and swung from its trees, collected firewood from its forests, kicked a footy along the flats nearby, and made some of his most important decisions sittoig on its banks. And he has watched the river change as pollution has become more obvious and irrigration dramatically increased. 'Slow river' is his ode to the Murrary and an exploration of why and how it is more than just a river. Bumping along in his ute and steering his old tinnie, Steve explores the full length of the Murray from its source in a small swampy puddle hidden in a clump of tea trees in the mountains to where it meets the seas. This is a rich and generous portrait of the river, its many moods and the people and communitities who depend upon it for their sanity and survivial" --