THE AGE BOOK
OF THE YEAR
NON-FICTION
Back from the Brink: How Australia's Landscape Can Be Saved
Peter Andrews (ABC Books)
Fifteen books have been shortlisted for the Age Book
of the Year awards. This is what the judges say about them.
Back from the Brink: How Australia's Landscape Can Be Saved
Peter Andrews
ABC Books
This is environmental writing at its most literate and accessible.
In a methodical, lucid manner, Peter Andrews addresses the critical
issues of land and water management in Australia. If our crisis
is to be resolved, he suggests, we must raise our historical
consciousness and understand the "original systems"
of the Australian landscape as they relate to water movement
and fertility.
Andrews' impassioned, empirical and systematic approach, outlined
in this book, could actively facilitate the process of recovery.
His arguments and research will help enlighten and persuade
the general reader far more effectively than any alarmist, "doomsday"
accounts
http://www.theage.com.au/news/books/prize-writing/2007/08/09/1186530539541.html
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