A Place on Earth: an Anthology of Nature Writing from Australia and North America

0868406546 Mark Tredinnick (ed.),
0868406546, UNSW Press, October 2003, 272pp, PB , 234x147mm
Price: $29.95

This compelling anthology brings together leading Australian and North American nature writers for the first time. North America has been home, since Thoreau, to a rich literature dedicated to bringing places alive in the imagination of readers. In Australia, where nature writing as a genre is less established, there are, nevertheless, outstanding writers, such as Tim Winton, better known as a novelist, Eric Rolls and Charmian Clift, whose work is included here.

Responding to places that sustain, inspire, bewilder and sometimes sadden, the pieces are propelled by passion, anger, history, ecological imagination, spirituality, despair or deep personal experience. The places considered vary as much as any on earth, but what each piece has in common with the rest is beautiful, resonant writing.

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