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11 Good Reasons to read before you hike: book review of Landmarks by Robert MacFarlane
How can we love a place that we do not know? This is a question at the heart of Robert MacFarlane’s much-heralded Landmarks. Simplistically billed as a glossary ...
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Muogamarra and the Language of Wildflowers
A short walk in the famed Muogamarra Nature Reserve leaves me in thrall to the beauty of flowers and the names used to describe them. Two things happened ...
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Book Review – On Track: Searching out the Bundian Way
John Blay’s outstanding piece of nature writing is essential reading for any bushwalker looking to experience country in a deeper way. This is especially true if you’ve spent ...
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Book Review: Not Birdwatching: reflections on noticing animals
How can noticing animals make you a better person? This book shows how, even in the densest urban environments, animals have the potential to affect our relationship to ...
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Book Review: Wolf Totem by Jiang Rong
Wolf Totem traces the last throes of Inner Mongolia’s grasslands and its people’s nomadic lifestyle. It’s a poignant, if overly long, account of the consequences of displacing traditional ...
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Book Review: The Ways of the Bushwalker
A 350-page social history of Australian bushwalking might sound like a tedious scrub bash. The reality is an insightful and approachable read that shows just how walking has ...
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Book Review – No Way Down: Life and Death on K2
What do mountaineering and globalisation have in common? This rollicking read, by New York Times journalist, Graham Bowley, tells the story of Himalayan mountain K2’s deadliest day when ...
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Book Review: Before They’re Gone by Michael Lanza
Beacon Press, 2012, 196pp. Feature Image credit: Michael Lanza. Before They’re Gone is a singular book that embraces adventure, parenting and environmental awareness in equal measure. It charts ...
