Kindred : a cradle mountain love story / Kate Legge.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Legge, Kate, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Conservationists--Biography.

Conservationists.

Cradle Mountain-Lake Saint Clair National Park (Tas.)--History.

Cradle Mountain-Lake Saint Clair National Park (Tas.).

Weindorfer, Gustav, 1874-1932.

Weindorfer, Gustav.

Weindorfer, Kate Julia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (223 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Carlton, Victoria : The Miegunyah Press, 2019.

Summary:

A love cradled by nature's greatest architecture: a national park. He was an Austrian immigrant; she came from Tasmania. He grew up beside the Carinthian Alps; she climbed mountains when few women dared. Their honeymoon glimpse of Cradle Mountain lit an urge that filled their waking hours. Others might have kept this splendour to themselves, but Gustav Weindorfer and Kate Cowle sensed the significance of a place they sought to share with the world. When they stood on the peak in the heat of January 1910, they imagined a national park for all. 'Kindred: A Cradle Mountain Love Story' traces the achievements of these unconventional adventurers and their fight to preserve the wilderness where they pioneered eco-tourism. Neither lived to see their vision fully realised: the World Heritage listed landscape is now visited by 250,000 people each year. Award-winning journalist Kate Legge tells the remarkable story behind the creation of the Cradle Mountain sanctuary through the characters at its heart.

Contents:

Beginnings

Awakenings

Mountain high

Kindred spirits

Welcome to country

Forest home

Loss

The spy

Giants

Bush laboratory

Single blessedness

The road

Legacy.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780522874525

0522874525

OCLC:

1499720244