Taming The Great South Land. A History Of The Conquest Of Nature In Australia

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: University Of Georgia Press
Publisher Place: London
Publisher Year: 1999
Edition: First Edition

Description: 347 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: William J. Lines traces Australias history from the continents geological origins, natural development, and earliest native cultures to its present-day state of population and economic overgrowth at the expense of the fragile environmental balance. In particular, Lines examines the period between Australias British colonization and the present, illuminating a path of environmental destruction from the colonists Enlightenment views to the end of our century. Indeed, the authors new afterword startles us with the urgency of Australias plight. Lines describes in great detail the recent damages done to the continents land, people, and national integrity in the name of "progress". He writes of continued land exploitation through mining, deforestation, and the excessive animal, plant, and land resource consumption of Australias burgeoning population. Although he places considerable blame on government officials and economic developers, Lines argues that Western civilization as a whole must change its view of the land and its resources. The scope of Taming the Great South Land reaches far beyond the continental boundaries of Australia and other political world borders. He urges us to recognize the magnitude of our responsibility, as a world community, to preserve the natural balances on which our very existence depends.

ISBN: 9780820320564