Tasmania’s Recherche Bay
Tasmania’s Recherche Bay
By Bob Brown
Published by The Green Institute
Paperback, 56pp, colour
ISBN 0 646 44899-4
rrp $17.50
Picture the scene when the last tree on Easter Island was to be felled. The technocrats would have said “Don’t worry — science will find an even better substitute.” The religious would have assured everyone that God would continue to provide, while the bureaucrats would report that since research was incomplete, a ban on logging might be premature. The landowner would have asserted his right to do as he wished with his own property, while the man with the axe would be saying “What about my job?”
That’s not an original thought; in fact, I pinched it from Jared Diamond. It’s a forceful image and one we have just enough time left to learn from.
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Cradle Mountain-Lake St Clair National Park
Cradle Mountain-Lake St Clair National Park
By Jamie Kirkpatrick
Photographs by Chris Bell, Rob Blakers, Grant Dixon, Peter Dombrovskis, Dennis Harding, Craig Johnson, Geoff Murray, David Noble, Dave Watts, David Ziegler
Produced and published by Rob Blakers – Wilderness Photo
ISBN 0-9579744-0-X
rrp $24.95
A portrait of our most beloved iconic mountain and surrounds, a tribute to our most popular national park, and a breathtaking collection of photographs by names that are a wilderness roll call of honour.
This slender softcover book is ravishing. The photographs cover the seasons, commencing with autumn when the slopes of the mountains and the hillsides sliding into glacial lakes are covered with the rich russet of fagus.
Seasonal canvas
Winter brings snow, with pandani and delicate plumes of poa grass frosted with ice. High-hung tarns are frozen to sheets of glass.
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