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What the trees see : a wander through millennia of natural history in Australia / Dave Witty.

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ISBN	9781922633842 (hardback)
ISBN	1922633844
Author	Witty, Dave (author)
Title	What the trees see : a wander through millennia of natural history in Australia / Dave Witty.
Publisher and/or associated date/s	Clayton, Victoria : Monash University Publishing, [2023]
Publisher and/or associated date/s	©2023.
Description	284 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages [253]-282)
Summary	A stunning meditation on the remarkable insights that Australia's trees can offer into our past. The trees around us - some we may walk past every day - tell a story. The mallee box by the twelfth hole of North Adelaide Golf Course evokes a time when Adelaide was clothed in mallee scrub and desert senna. Brisbane's remnant blue gum, growing by the botanic gardens, indicates a time when the city was once jungle. The river red gums of Melbourne bear the scars of Aboriginal craftmanship. Mangroves, Leichhardt trees, acacias, eucalypts, foxtails...together, they inspire a narrative that jumps from Burke and Wills to sugar slaves, Empress Josephine to Johnny Flinders. Eucalypts reveal lost cultures and lost children. Cabbage palms tell of incomparable migrations. In the spirit of Bob Gilbert's Ghost Trees and Don Watson's The Bush, this book explores how our trees hold our history and reveal it to us.
Subjects	Trees -- Australia
	Natural history -- Australia
	Nature -- Effect of human beings on
Call number	2024.031

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Barcode	Shelf Location	Collection	Volume Ref.	Status	Due Date
A00972245	2024.031	General Collection		. Available to Museum Staff .