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Germaine Greer White Beech (Paperback)
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- Book Title
- White Beech : the Rainforest Years
- Publication Name
- White Beech
- Title
- White Beech
- Subtitle
- The Rainforest Years
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- ISBN-10
- 140884673X
- EAN
- 9781408846735
- ISBN
- 9781408846735
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing
- Genre
- Biography & Autobiography, Nature
- Topic
- Personal Memoirs, General
- Release Year
- 2015
- Release Date
- 29/01/2015
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- GB
- Item Height
- 1in
- Item Length
- 7.8in
- Item Weight
- 10.8 Oz
- Publication Year
- 2015
- Item Width
- 5.1in
- Number of Pages
- 384 Pages
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One bright day in December 2001, sixty-two-year-old Germaine Greer found herself confronted by an irresistible challenge in the shape of sixty hectares of dairy farm, one of many in south-east Queensland that, after a century of logging, clearing and downright devastation, had been abandoned to their fate. She didn't think for a minute that by restoring the land she was saving the world. She was in search of heart's ease. Beyond the acres of exotic pasture grass and soft weed and the impenetrable curtains of tangled Lantana canes there were Macadamias dangling their strings of unripe nuts, and Black Beans with red and yellow pea flowers growing on their branches . . . and the few remaining White Beeches, stupendous trees up to forty meters in height, logged out within forty years of the arrival of the first white settlers. To have turned down even a faint chance of bringing them back to their old haunts would have been to succumb to despair. Once the process of rehabilitation had begun, the chance proved to be a dead certainty. When the first replanting shot up to make a forest and rare caterpillars turned up to feed on the leaves of the new young trees, she knew beyond doubt that at least here biodepletion could be reversed. Greer describes herself as an old dog who succeeded in learning a load of new tricks, inspired and rejuvenated by her passionate love of Australia and of Earth, most exuberant of small planets.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN-10
140884673x
ISBN-13
9781408846735
eBay Product ID (ePID)
26038909586
Product Key Features
Book Title
White Beech : the Rainforest Years
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Personal Memoirs, General
Publication Year
2015
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Nature
Number of Pages
384 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
7.8in
Item Height
1in
Item Width
5.1in
Item Weight
10.8 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
S606
Reviews
Germaine Greer helped ignite the touchpaper of women's liberation. She's an intellectual force, often great fun, and a firecracker--whose sparks fly in many, sometimes unpredictable, directions., A n extraordinary travelogue: a love letter to Germaine Greer's birth country and an intense biography of the land., In 2001, the 62-year-old Greer took on the 'irresistible' challenge of rehabilitating 60 hectares of a dairy farm in south-east Queensland, which after a century of logging, clearing and downright devastation had been abandoned to its fate. Seduced in particular by the few remaining white beech trees, this is her memoir both of this extraordinary project, and of her love affair with the forest and her native Australia., She has thrown as much intelligence and energy into her blessed plot as into this lively, loving, rollicking account of her ecological adventure., Searching for somewhere to archive her papers, in 2001, Germaine Greer was taken to an abandoned dairy farm in Queensland. White Beech: The Rainforest Years tells the story of her decade-long battle to rehabilitate the damaged forest of white beeches and other trees she found there. Working with her sister, a botanist, she puts all her remarkable passion and a lot of money into the project., "In 2001, the 62-year-old Greer took on the "irresistible" challenge of rehabilitating 60 hectares of a dairy farm in south-east Queensland, which after a century of logging, clearing and downright devastation had been abandoned to its fate. Seduced in particular by the few remaining white beech trees, this is her memoir both of this extraordinary project, and of her love affair with the forest and her native Australia.", A hymn to botany as a discipline and a vehicle of heritage . . . Even when she's lyrical, her botany is rigorous., I can't overstate the impact that Greer's work has had on my own writing. Her weaving together of personal narrative, pop culture analysis and rigorous academic scholarship has been tremendously influential., A much-anticipated memoir . . . four decades after her controversial ideas first started shaking things up, she is still going strong . . . few thinkers have had such an impact on women's lives., Never doubt Greer's brilliant power of language. White Beech drips with lavish, sensual, technically demanding words, used uncompromisingly . . . as maverick and unyielding as its author . . . poetic and moving., A powerful account of Greer's attempt to reverse the calamitous environmental impact of Australian history on one patch of land . . . Greer remains a winning, funny, indomitable figure throughout, and it is fascinating to follow her as she works through so much of her messy, complicated relationship with Australia., Germaine Greer in one of the cornerstones of feminism and she has a sense of humour, which I think is absolutely essential., Germaine is a one-off. I haven't always agreed with her but she has consistently fought for women. We owe her a tremendous amount. Best of all, she never cares about being popular. She's fearless., A beautifully written book . . . Simple, effective descriptions of everything from pythons to pademelons, filled with telling detail, and no little amount of love and respect., Greer is a talented wordsmith and her vivid descriptions transport readers into a habitat that thrums with noise and movement and life . . . White Beech is a book to be read, considered and discussed., A splendid love letter to the recipient of her affections . . . Beautifully crafted descriptions that dot the book like jewels., Wonderfully idiosyncratic . . . I loved it. It's a tale of a fabulous obsession, and it is maddeningly brilliant., Greer Is As Enraptured and As Protective As a Lover When Describing the Richness of the Rainforest., Wonderfully vivid descriptions of the forest . . . The book is full of lovely lists of the wildlife that has returned., Passionate and eccentric . . . A lifetime of activism, bloody-mindedness, academic punctiliousness, men-baiting and solidarity has produced a wonderfully unexpected book., An extraordinary travelogue: a love letter to Germaine Greer's birth country and an intense biography of the land., In 2001, the 62-year-old Greer took on the "irresistible" challenge of rehabilitating 60 hectares of a dairy farm in south-east Queensland, which after a century of logging, clearing and downright devastation had been abandoned to its fate. Seduced in particular by the few remaining white beech trees, this is her memoir both of this extraordinary project, and of her love affair with the forest and her native Australia, We love: White Beech . . . Her new book is written not by a passionate young feminist but by a woman in her seventies who has lost none of her energy to speak out for causes . . . I am sure listeners will find her love of her motherland, and for her sister, both touching and revealing., In 2001, the 62-year-old Greer took on the "irresistible" challenge of rehabilitating 60 hectares of a dairy farm in south-east Queensland, which after a century of logging, clearing and downright devastation had been abandoned to its fate. Seduced in particular by the few remaining white beech trees, this is her memoir both of this extraordinary project, and of her love affair with the forest and her native Australia., There is nothing touchy-feely about Germaine Greer's vision of perfection . . . It is a love affair with nature the real, nature as battleground, beautiful in its violence.
Copyright Date
2015
Dewey Decimal
577.3409943
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
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