Patriots. Defending Australia's Natural Heritage

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: University Of Queensland Press
Publisher Place: St Lucia
Publisher Year: 2006
Edition: First Edition

Description: 406 pages. Book is in Very good condition throughout. For More Than Sixty Years A Small Group Of Dedicated People Heve Been Fighting To Defend Australia's Unique Wildlife.

Publishers Description: This is the story of the struggle by a small group of people who sought to defend the life that belongs to a continent. The name they gave that struggle was conservation. The conservation movement has battled indifference and hostility throughout its history. Government and developers treat Australia as a quarry, and yet the movement has won some great victories and secured the preservation of some of the world's most pristine landscapes. But much has also been lost. Powerful and provocative, Patriots travels through the history and politics of Australia's conservation movement, and describes a new national identity - an identity deeply enmeshed in nature, an identification with the land that non-Indigenous Australia has lacked.

ISBN: 9780702235542