The Forest Wars: the ugly truth behind what’s happening in our tall forests
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Book Review: What the Trees See: a wander through millennia of natural history in Australia
Author: Dave Witty
Publisher: Monash University Publishing 2023
Reviewed by: Helen Wilson of the NPA’s environmental book group
This is a recent book by an emerging writer about a wide range of Australian trees, both species and individual specimens, that have historical significance. Witty is an English migrant who fixates on the trees he comes across, particularly very old ones, to investigate Australia; finding a wealth of fascinating and often little-known stories. Along the way he demonstrates wide reading and knowledge of Australian history, literature and art.
Book Review: The Heartbeat of Trees: Embracing our ancient bond with forests and nature
Author: Peter Wohlleben
Published: 2019 in German. English version 2021, translated by Jane Billinghurst, published by Black Inc.
Review by Graham Kelly of NPA’s Environmental Book Group
Peter Wohlleben is a German forester, best known for his “The Hidden Life of Trees” published in 2015. This newer book covers a variety of tree-related topics, mostly linked to relationships of various kinds between humans and trees. The author has a huge knowledge of trees. He is also willing to commit his own ideas and opinions into his writing.
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Book Review: The Secret Life of Wombats by James Woodford
Pam Dawes, NPA Environmental Book Club
This book begins by exploring through the eyes of a 15-year-old schoolboy, Peter Nicholson, the burrows of wombats; wriggling on his tummy and exploring a world not unlike that of Alice’s Wonderland. His notes and tunnel maps written in 1960, are still being referred to today, as his feat has not been repeated. Imagine coming face to face with a wombat within a tunnel only just big enough to wriggle through. Peter excavated the tunnels just enough in a few places, to make a turnaround, so he could come out of the burrow face first.
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Book Review: The Frenchman
The Frenchman. Francis Barrallier life & journeys 1773-1853
Andy Macqueen (self published) 2024
RRP $40.00
A review by Roger Lembit
Andy Macqueen has written a new book about the life and travels of Francis Barrallier. Barrallier, who served as an Ensign and Aide-de-Camp in the early days of colonial Sydney penetrated deep into the southern Blue Mountains over ten years before the crossing by Blaxland, Lawson and Wentworth.
Book Review: Sunburnt Country: The History and Future of Climate Change in Australia
Author: Joëlle Gergis.
Publisher: Melbourne University Press, 2018.
Reviewed by: Sam Garrett-Jones and Graham Kelly, NPA Environmental Book Club
Australians are no strangers to ‘droughts and flooding rains’1. Joëlle Gergis charts a history of Australia’s climate since European settlement and before, with a focus on its high variability and the consequent disasters of flood, drought and fire. She uses written accounts of early colonists and ‘formal records’ of weather from William Dawes’ 1788 observations onwards.
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