Author: Iain McCalman
Publisher: NewSouth Publishing
Reviewed by Anne Dickson and NPA Environmental Book Club
Iain McCalman, in ‘John Büsst: Bohemian artist and saviour of reef and rainforest’, engagingly narrates the life of a man whose artistic sensibility and creative exploitation of science and politics led to a successful collaborative crusade to protect wet tropics rainforest in Djiru Country, North Queensland and the Great Barrier Reef. The title of this book hints at a story in two parts. Büsst’s artistic creativity and craftsman skills were honed during his time living in artist communities outside Melbourne and in Bedarra Island off the Queensland coast near Tully. Then, after falling in love with the flourishing but threatened natural environment of North Queensland, Büsst spent the later part of his life successfully campaigning to protect rainforest and reef ecosystems.
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