Forests of Ash (häftad)
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Häftad (Paperback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
248
Utgivningsdatum
2001-11-01
Förlag
Cambridge University Press
Medarbetare
Tom, Griffiths
Illustratör/Fotograf
69 b, w illus 5 maps 5 tables
Illustrationer
5d.24col.pl.5tabs.5M. 40halftones
Antal komponenter
1
Komponenter
Overseas edition
ISBN
9780521012348

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Forests of Ash (häftad)

Forests of Ash

An Environmental History

av Tom Griffiths
Häftad Engelska, 2001-11-01
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This beautifully written book tells the story of Australia's giant eucalypt, the Mountain Ash, which grows in the region north and east of Melbourne. A single tree can reach a height of 120 feet in 20 years, making it the tallest hardwood in the world. While celebrating the steep, wet, dense eastern forests of Australia, Tom Griffiths shows that they can be far from benign. Dependent on fire for their survival, this awesome natural vegetation can become a source of destruction, forcing people to confront their relationship with the bush. Visited seasonally by indigenous people and later a site of mining and saw-milling for settlers, as well as contested ground for conservationists, the life cycles and fire cycles of the forests span millennia. Tom Griffiths tells the environmental, ecological and social history of a unique Australian forest, and, in doing so, tells the story of the continent as a whole.
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'Griffiths' research work has clear and practical applications ... Griffiths brings special insights into understanding forests.' The Age

'Forests of Ash is informative and engaging. Readers will be taken by the fiery content and thought-provoking prose.' Bary Dowling, The Sunday Age

'Griffiths writes with a good novelist's craftsmanship and sensitivity.' Canberra Times

' ... a profoundly enjoyable work, illustrated both in colour and in black and white (neither of which is any kind of pun).' Australian Book Review

' ... well illustrated ... This book is a pleasure to read and is likely to appeal to both specialist and general audiences.' The Agricultural History Review

Innehållsförteckning

Part I. A History of the Ash Range: 1. Continent of fire; 2. Tall trees; 3. 'Improving'; 4. Crossing the Blacks' Spur; 5. Mining; 6. Timber tramways; 7. Water; 8. The theatre of nature; 9. Tourism; 10. Black Friday; 11. The long experiment; 12. Heritage; Part II. Spotlights Ash and ants Alan Yen; Co-evolution, a tall forest story Ken Walker; Lyrebird Rory O'Brien; Coranderrk calendar Lindy Allen; Gems in the forest Bill Birch; The good oil Gary Presland; Hairstreak butterfly Ross Field; Shortfin eel Martin Gomon; 'The strength and beauty of the mountain valleys' Elizabeth Willis; Leadbeater's possum Joan Dixon; Insect outbreaks Alan Yen; Exhibiting the tall forests Luke Simpkin; Epilogue.