Country: Visions of Land and People edited by Andrea Gaynor, Mathew Trinca and Anna Haebich

Book Description

Secondhand. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Slight curve to right tail corner - as if the book has not been shelve correctly. Interior and binding are still excellent.

So often, we take the land for granted; it seems disarmingly real and elemental. Yet in Australia, as in most parts of the world, conflicts rage incessantly over land and its use. We even use the phrase 'contested ground' as a metaphor for all sorts of arguments and differences.

Country: Visons of Land People in Western Australia reflects on the unique character of people's experiences in Western Australian landscapes. It explains some of the major environmental changes over the past two centuries and considers their cultural meaning. This is a book for anyone who wants to know more about the people and places in the western third of the Australian continent.

Contents:

Introduction: Visions of land and people in Western Australia by Mathew Trinca and Andrea Gaynor

1. Recurring visions of Australindia by Steve Kinnane
2. Ngapa Kunangkul (living water): an Indigenous view of groundwater by Sarah Yu
3. Can't see the trees for the wood? : visions and re-visions of old-growth forests in Western Australia by Jean Hillier
4. A cruel business: whaling and the Albany Community 1946-1988 by Adam Wolfe
5. Looking forward, looking back: towards an environmental history of salinity and erosion in the eastern Wheatbelt of Western Australia by Andrea Gaynor
   
6. Group settlers and land in the Northcliffe Region, South-West Western Australia 1924-1939 by Patricia Crawford
   
7. Vegetation and environmental history of Southern Western Australia by John Dodson et al
8. Garden Island: from Captain Stirling RN to HMAS Stirling by Marion Hercock
9. Your car is as welcome as you are: a history of transportation and planning in the Perth Metropolitan Region by Phil McManus
10. Myth and reality: the quality of Perth's air by Sue Graham-Taylor
11. Representing environmental pasts by Mathew Trinca
12. Expanding the scope of environmental history: householders campaigning for safer homes by Pam Nichols
13. Losing paradise by Liana Joy Christensen