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Tag: Environment

Review: White Beech by Germaine Greer

Germaine Greer writes that restoring the land is her proudest achievement.

Australian, Environment, Germaine Greer, Nonfiction

The best books I’ve read 2020

The books that have had the biggest impact on me this year.

Argentina, Australian, Classics, Contemporary, End of year review, Environment, Fiction, Indigenous writers, Nonfiction, Novel

Review: Living With The Anthropocene (edited by Cameron Muir, Kirsten Wehner and Jenny Newell)

The writers in this collection grapple with what it means to be “planetary” beings: how our individual actions can seem so small, but have global consequences.

Anthology, Anthropocene, Australian, Climate change, Conservation, Environment, Nonfiction

Review: Fire Country by Victor Steffensen

Victor Steffensen offers a language to articulate here we want to go and how to get there.

Australian, Climate change, Environment, Indigenous writers

Review: Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake

Entangled Life is a mind-expanding trip into the world of fungi, and a model for nature and science writing.

biology, ecology, Environment, Fungi, Mushrooms, mycology, nature, Nonfiction, science

Review: Feasting Wild by Gina Rae La Cerva

A moving and compelling investigation into wild food and the practices of hunting and gathering, and by extension, humanity’s whole relationship to nature.

Colonialism, Conservation, Environment, History, Indigenous history, Nonfiction

Review: Mammoth by Chris Flynn

A mammoth and a tyrannosaurus skeleton find themselves in storage, setting the stage for a fascinating and ultimately moving romp through history.

Animals, Australian, Contemporary, Dinosaurs, Environment, Extinction, Fiction, Novel

Review: Truganini by Cassandra Pybus

In Truganini, historian Cassandra Pybus attempts to “release” a woman from colonial myth-making. It is a shattering book.

Australian, Biography, Colonialism, Environment, History, Indigenous history, Nonfiction, Tasmania

Review: Notes From An Apocalypse by Mark O’Connell

Mark O’Connell is a very entertaining, self-effacing and thoughtful companion to the end of the world.

Apocalypse, Climate change, Contemporary, Environment, Nonfiction

Review: Fathoms by Rebecca Giggs

Fathoms is a book of philosophy and science that might shock us out of our lethargy towards nature.

Environment, Nonfiction

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