Bibliograph

What the trees see, a wander through millennia of natural history in Australia, Dave Witty

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What the trees see, a wander through millennia of natural history in Australia, Dave Witty

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

What the trees see

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

Dave Witty

Sub title

a wander through millennia of natural history in Australia

Summary

A stunning meditation on the remarkable insights that Australia's trees can offer into our past. The trees around us - some we may walk past every day - tell a story. The mallee box by the twelfth hole of North Adelaide Golf Course evokes a time when Adelaide was clothed in mallee scrub and desert senna. Brisbane's remnant blue gum, growing by the botanic gardens, indicates a time when the city was once jungle. The river red gums of Melbourne bear the scars of Aboriginal craftmanship. Mangroves, Leichhardt trees, acacias, eucalypts, foxtails, together, they inspire a narrative that jumps from Burke and Wills to sugar slaves, Empress Josephine to Johnny Flinders

Target audience

adult

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