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Author: William Laurance Publisher: University of Chicago Press ISBN: 9780226468969 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 228
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A biologist records the time he spent in a remote area of Australia's tropical rainforest, and his run-ins with plant, animal, and human species alike. Photos and illustrations.
Author: William Laurance Publisher: University of Chicago Press ISBN: 9780226468969 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 228
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A biologist records the time he spent in a remote area of Australia's tropical rainforest, and his run-ins with plant, animal, and human species alike. Photos and illustrations.
Author: Germaine Greer Publisher: A&C Black ISBN: 1408846713 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 385
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For years I had wandered Australia with an aching heart. Everywhere I had ever travelled across the vast expanse of the fabulous country where I was born I had seen devastation, denuded hills, eroded slopes, weeds from all over the world, feral animals, open-cut mines as big as cities, salt rivers, salt earth, abandoned townships, whole beaches made of beer cans... One bright day in December 2001, sixty-two-year-old Germaine Greer found herself confronted by an irresistible challenge in the shape of sixty hectares of dairy farm, one of many in south-east Queensland that, after a century of logging, clearing and downright devastation, had been abandoned to their fate. She didn't think for a minute that by restoring the land she was saving the world. She was in search of heart's ease. Beyond the acres of exotic pasture grass and soft weed and the impenetrable curtains of tangled Lantana canes there were Macadamias dangling their strings of unripe nuts, and Black Beans with red and yellow pea flowers growing on their branches ... and the few remaining White Beeches, stupendous trees up to forty metres in height, logged out within forty years of the arrival of the first white settlers. To have turned down even a faint chance of bringing them back to their old haunts would have been to succumb to despair. Once the process of rehabilitation had begun, the chance proved to be a dead certainty. When the first replanting shot up to make a forest and rare caterpillars turned up to feed on the leaves of the new young trees, she knew beyond doubt that at least here biodepletion could be reversed. Greer describes herself as an old dog who succeeded in learning a load of new tricks, inspired and rejuvenated by her passionate love of Australia and of Earth, most exuberant of small planets.
Author: Martin Kari Publisher: Xlibris Corporation ISBN: 1543404537 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 137
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The poet shows human power (Faust, Wolfgang von Goethe). Here rhyme is not asked to make an exclusive appearance. Poems of Martin Kari are prose poems, written very much from the heart. They are not too much concerned with form and line ending, in other words, rhyme only. Truth is here a concern. The reader is not confronted with difficult intellect, rather, being invited to share with the poets natural views where the outcome is positive (FAWQ editor, Caroline Glen). Des Menschen Kraft im Dichter off enbart (Faust, Wolfgang von Goethe). Hier ist nicht gefragt: Reim dich, oder ich fri dich. Gedichte von Martin Kari sind Prosa-Gedichte. Sie kommen vom Herzen. Sie sind nicht alleine vom Format bestimmt, es geht um die Wahrheit, daher ist die Sprache direkt, ohne Umschweife. Der Dichter sucht bereinstimmung mit dem Leser. Die Gedichte lesen sich leicht, kein besonderer Intellekt ist angesprochen die Aussagen sind unmiverstndlich und heben das Bewutsein (FAWQ editor, Caroline Glen).
Author: Rob Story Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company ISBN: 9780393320718 Category : Sports & Recreation Languages : en Pages : 226
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Describes and outlines twenty-one bicyle trails from California's Redwood Belt to the Andes to South Africa's Golden Route, and provides information on trip length, cost, lodging, and level of physical and mental challenge.
Author: Publisher: ISBN: Category : Libraries Languages : en Pages : 950
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Includes, beginning Sept. 15, 1954 (and on the 15th of each month, Sept.-May) a special section: School library journal, ISSN 0000-0035, (called Junior libraries, 1954-May 1961). Also issued separately.
Author: Derrick Stone Publisher: CSIRO PUBLISHING ISBN: 0643106928 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 279
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For the first time in a single volume, this book brings together more than 140 of the best walks, tracks or trails in New South Wales, which can be walked by the moderately fit individual. They are located in national parks, coastal parks, state forests, conservation reserves, historic parks and local government and public easements. Other routes follow state highways, minor roads, coastal cliffs, old gold routes, or pass bushranger haunts and back roads linking towns and historical features. Most routes do not require specialist navigation or bushcraft skills, and vary in length from a 45-minute stroll to a 4-day, 65-kilometre camping trip. Walks, Tracks and Trails of New South Wales highlights the best the state has to offer, from an outback ghost town and ancient lake beds, to Australia’s highest mountain, coastal environments and World Heritage rainforests. Easy-to-interpret maps are included to help you navigate, and the book’s size makes it convenient to bring with you on your adventures.
Author: Wayne Kelly Publisher: Boolarong Press ISBN: 0995410577 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 146
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This is the fascinating account of how Australia’s development was fuelled by alcohol. Discover: how alcohol became the Great Comforter where and why the shout originated how alcohol influenced political elections how booze was used to balance the budget the relationship between alcohol and the Wowsers how booze built physical Australia. Drawing upon obscures sources, Booze Built Australia develops a theory that has never been acknowledged before on the role of alcohol in the social, political, economic and cultural development of Australia.
Author: Ross Fardon Publisher: Xlibris Corporation ISBN: 1479764787 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 392
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This is a book of a hundred stories and life lessons: crazy; beautiful; very serious. It is of a golden life and nine near-death encounters, moving between remote camps amidst poor indigenous folk, the salt of the Earth, and the glossy skyscrapers of our cities. Mineral exploration is a strange game. It is highest technology, big dollars, outback people and their aspirations, wonderful places, and flies, dirt, mud, budget cuts and enduring friendships. Remote projects keep explorers abroad in this beautiful world, but far from families. You have time and yearning on your hands, time to think and dream. When you reach executive ranks, you deal in public ideologies about mining, government and NGOs at all levels, billions of dollars, and changing whole regions around great mines for better more than for worse. This is the easily-written story of man and manager, major public policies, and many good folk across the world. To read more, go to Rossfardonbooksandessays.com where you can also download essays for free.
Author: William Laurance
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