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A passeggiata in Italy is a gentle stroll taken in the late afternoon or early evening. Rosemary Ross Johnston's Passeggiata strolls through a long and varied life - as daughter, wife, mother, teacher, university professor, researcher, writer, and crusader against disadvantage. Building on a motif of her various homes and gardens, Passeggiata is more than a memoir; it is a story of challenge, discovery about origins and revelations about identity, set amidst richly evocative literary and artistic contexts. Passeggiata offers a valuable and fascinating snapshot of a nation growing through immense sociocultural and historical change. It is convivial and invites profoundly philosophical and spiritual perspectives. It also captures a vital story about the beginnings of the Australian film industry and its ongoing struggles against external control. Most of all Passeggiata is about celebrating both present and past, with hope and gratitude.

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Professor Emerita Rosemary Johnston AM is widely published both nationally and internationally and is the author of Australian Literature for Young People (Oxford 2017), which was launched by then Governor-General Quentin Bryce. She is the author of Part 3 Literature (Chapters 26-36) in Oxford's best-selling Literacy: Reading, Writing and Children's Literature academic text (six editions 2001-2020). She is an active researcher and has held key leadership roles at the University of Technology Sydney and in several international professional organisations, including Fédération Internationale des Langues et Littératures Modernes affiliated to UNESCO. Professor Johnston has worked with remote Indigenous communities in the Pilbara and Western Desert Lands, the Yorke Peninsula, Galiwin'ku, and Lockhart River. Her particular passion over many years has been helping young people in disadvantaged circumstances, both in regional and urban areas. In 2019 she was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia for services to higher education and to children's literature.

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