Wild Nature: Walking Australia’s South East Forests
Author: John Blay
Publisher: NewSouth Publishing 2020
Reviewer: Samantha Newton
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Book Review: Call of the Reed Warbler
A new agriculture, a new earth, by Charles Massy
Group review by NPA book group
The NPA book group had a very interesting discussion of this rich book on February 8. Members brought different perspectives. Some had farm backgrounds but most of us had not. One member had a family connection to the author. Another has a son considering farming as a career. A third found it valuable to read the book twice.
Book Review: Einstein’s Last Message
Author: Dr Rod O’Connor
Review by Sam Garrett-Jones
In 1946 Einstein was worried. On the 23rd of June, he gave the New York Times his “message.” He warned, “A new type of thinking is essential if mankind is to survive.” Einstein was fearful of nuclear war and human nature. He thought we might destroy ourselves. Since then, our situation has become worse. We now have climate change and far-reaching destruction of the natural world.
Book Review: The Enchantment of the Long-haired Rat, a Rodent History of Australia
Author: Tim Bonyhady | Publisher: Text Publishing 2019 | Reviewed by Helen Wilson, Illawarra Branch
Bonyhady has a wide range of expertise as historian, cultural critic, environmentalist and lawyer. I loved his last book Good Living Street, about his Viennese Jewish family’s pre World War 2 history, which came out in 2011. The Enchantment of the Long-Tailed Rat is a return to environmental themes, but with the same openness to a variety of sources and nose for revealing stories.
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Book Review: Deep Time Dreaming
Review by Sam Garrett-Jones
Billy Griffiths, Deep Time Dreaming: Uncovering Ancient Australia. Black Inc, Schwartz Publishing, Carlton, Vic, 2018. www.blackincbooks.com
Kosciuszko: A Great National Park
- Authors: Deidre Slattery and Graeme L. Worboys
- Publisher: Envirobooks
- Reviewed by Esther Gallant (President, NPA ACT) and Dianne Thompson OAM (NPA ACT and NPA NSW)
This is THE BOOK on Kosciuszko National Park (KNP) for all those who know and love it and would like to understand it better in order to promote its protection. Graeme Worboys has spent his professional career working in and around KNP and both authors have extensive personal knowledge of the park. Graeme Worboys AM started as a NSW NPWS Kosciuszko ranger and now is a protected area management specialist. Deirdre Slattery is a historian and has written extensively about the Alpine Parks and contributed widely to community education about them. Together they have produced a book which is both authoritative and an inspiration to read.
If you are interested in purchasing the book do not delay as it was a limited printing run and is being sold at cost.
Envirobook: www.envirobook.com.au