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  • Dad looks out over the almost-sacred Hidden Valley from Dark Brothers Cave
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    Into the Hidden Valley: Walking the Budawang Range (Part 2)

    After a heat-soaked ridgetop walk, my Dad and I had finally made it to the Hidden Valley, deep in the Budawang Ranges south-west of Nowra, NSW. As we ...

    On 7 June, 2016 / By James Stuart
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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 ...

    On 15 June, 2015 / By James Stuart
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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 ...

    On 3 May, 2015 / By James Stuart

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