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Australia's environmental movement and those defending the unique wildlife Down Under are superbly examined in this powerful account. Charting the emergence of a new national "green" movement and its members' commitment to nature's survival, this exploration details the landmark environmental battles already faced as well as those lurking on the horizon.

This book chronicles a fascinating 650km trek through the Jarrah and Karri forests of southern Western Australia. The book shows how the use and abuse of this temperate eucalypt forest has wider lessons that can be applied to the use and abuse of the planet.

Author of the highly acclaimed Taming the Great South Land: A History of the Conquest of Nature in Australia and An All Consuming Passion: Origins, Modernity, and the Australian Life of Georgiana Molloy, Bill Lines turns his critical gaze to the twentieth-century history of Australia in this forthright and highly committed study. That history, he believes, has been marked by a total disregard for limits, and an arrogant belief in the desirabil...