Review by Sam Garrett-Jones
Billy Griffiths, Deep Time Dreaming: Uncovering Ancient Australia. Black Inc, Schwartz Publishing, Carlton, Vic, 2018. www.blackincbooks.com
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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
Australia’s National Parks by Public Transport
Book Review. Author: Mick Ogrizek, 2019
At last, a guide for the keen bushwalker who doesn’t have access to a car.
Mick Ogrizek explains the impetus for this book was his post-retirement goal to visit all the national parks of Australia. It was a goal hampered by the lack of a driver’s licence. The book is a result of research on how to visit those National Parks that are accessible by public transport. It is a work in progress, with the book covering 38 national parks across all eight states and territories.
Book Review: Surviving the 21st Century
Surviving the 21st Century is an important, must read book for all who hope and strive for a better future for our species, Homo sapiens.
Book Review: Underwater Sydney
Underwater Sydney is a celebration of the underwater environment of Sydney’s spectacular harbour and beaches.
Book Review: Sunburnt Country by Joëlle Gergis
Our July Environmental Book Club reading was Sunburnt Country; the History and Future of Climate Change in Australia by Joëlle Gergis. In this history of Australia’s climate and the meteorology that recorded and analysed that climate, Gergis brings understanding to climate fluctuation through natural forces and demonstrates how human action is intensifying climate variability and exposing us to new climate extremes.
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