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White beech : the rainforest years / Germaine Greer.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Circulating Collection QH197.2.Q8 G74 2014
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Greer, Germaine, 1939- Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Greer, Germaine, 1939---Homes and haunts--Australia--Queensland, South East.
- Greer, Germaine.
- Rain forests--Australia--Queensland, South East.
- Rain forests.
- Rain forests--Conservation and restoration--Australia--Queensland, South East.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 370 pages : map ; 24 cm.
- Edition:
- First U.S. edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Bloomsbury, 2014.
- Summary:
- "One bright day in December 2001, Germaine Greer found herself confronted by an irresistible challenge in the shape of sixty hectares of dairy farm, one of many in south-east Queensland that, after a century of logging, clearing and downright devastation, had been abandoned to their fate."--Dust jacket.
- Contents:
- Prologue
- The tree
- Eden
- Desert
- The bird
- The forest
- The traditional owners
- The pioneer
- Timber
- Cream
- Bloody botanists
- Bananas
- Nuts
- The inhabitants : non-furry
- The inhabitants : furry
- Epilogue.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 344-353) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Scott fund bookplate.
- ISBN:
- 9781620406113 :
- 162040611X
- OCLC:
- 878953257
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