WILDERNESS: Celebrating Australia’s Protected Places

Lynda Warner (designer) ; Tracey Diggins (designer) ; Rob Blakers (editor) ; Geoff Law (author) ; Jill McCulloch (compiler)

$100.00

Sold Out

AUSTRALIAN FAUNA & FLORA Conservation

Documents the Society’s conservation of Kakadu, the Daintree rainforest, East Gippsland, the Kimberly and Tasmania’s wilderness.

On a winter’s day in 1976, a band of young conservationists gathered at the foot of Tasmania’s highlands to create a new organisation, the Tasmanian Wilderness Society. The ensuing battle to save the Franklin River from being dammed for hydroelectricity changed Australian constitutional history and established the new organisation’s reputation for determination, grass-roots action and defiance. These qualities were taken to campaigns for wild nature right across Australia after the organisation changed its name to `The Wilderness Society’ in 1983. The rewards have been new national parks and World Heritage Areas protecting some of Australia’s most beautiful, biodiverse and majestic landscapes, including Kakadu, the Daintree rainforest, East Gippsland, the Kimberley, the Great Australian and, of course, the wilderness of western Tasmania. This book is a celebration of those landscapes and the strenuous efforts made to protect them. Photographs by some of Australia’s most celebrated wilderness photographers – including the late Peter Dombrovskis – are interspersed with tales of the vision and audacity exemplified by one of the nation’s premier organisations. But the book is also a call to action. With the rapid onset of climate change, our natural environment faces the most serious threat in its history. The Wilderness Society hopes that the images and stories in this book will inspire its readers to help tackle this most important of all challenges faced by Australia today….

pp. 178 illusts. First Edition. #180622

Photographs by:Michael Cordell, Peter Dombrovskis, Rob Blakers, Roger Scholes
Contributor:Bob Brown

(Oversized book, which will incur additional shipping costs if ordered from overseas or via Abebooks.)

Additional Information

AuthorLynda Warner (designer) ; Tracey Diggins (designer) ; Rob Blakers (editor) ; Geoff Law (author) ; Jill McCulloch (compiler)
Number of pagespp. 178 illusts.
PublisherThe Wilderness Society Tasmania (Inc)
Year Published2018
Binding Type

Hardcover in Dustjacket

Book Condition

Fine / Fine

Elizabeth’s Bookshops have been one of Australia’s premier independent book dealers since 1973. Elizabeth’s family-owned business operates four branches in Perth CBD, Fremantle (WA), and Newtown (NSW). All orders are dispatched within 24 hours from our Fremantle Warehouse.

All items can be viewed at Elizabeth’s Bookshop Warehouse, 23 Queen Victoria Street, Fremantle WA.
Click & Collect (no postage cost!) is available at all branches.