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Title: Wild Nature: Walking Australia’s South East forests
Author: BLAY JOHN
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 01/06/2020
Imprint: NEW SOUTH WALES UNI PRESS
Price: $40.00
Publishing status: Active
An epic journey of discovery into the
heart of a vast and contested Australian wilderness.
In Wild
Nature John Blay laces up his walking boots and goes bush to explore Australia s
rugged southeast forests stretching from Canberra to the coast and on to
Wilsons Promontory in a great circle from his home in Bermagui. In this
compelling book, the bestselling author of On Track charts the forests
natural history, their Indigenous history and the first European incursions,
the forest wars, the establishment of the South East Forests National Park, and
the threats that continue to face their existence, including devastating
bushfires. Along the way Blay asks the big questions. What do we really know
about these wild forests? How did the forests come to be the way they are? What
is the importance of wild nature to our civilisation?
'This is a beautiful and enchanting book. John Blay is a superb walking companion a naturalist, historian and philosopher whose writing glows with wit, wisdom and wonder. I savoured every word and relished every step. Wild Nature is a journal of meditation, observation and exploration, and a delicate natural and human history of the south east forests. What is nature, and how do we value it today? How did we save these special places and how might we lose them? Pick up this book and set foot in another world, a wild one nested within our own.' Tom Griffiths
ISBN: 9781742236902
Dimension: 234mm X 153mm