Book ID: 116249
Lindenmayer, David B.
The Great Frest. The rare beauty of the Victorian Central Highlands.With photographs by Chris Taylor, Sarah Rees and Steven Kuiter. 2021. illus. (col.). 192 p. 4to Hardcover.
The Great Forest is a tribute to extraordinary landscapes now under severe threat from logging and wildfires, such as the catastrophic fire that struck on Black Saturday in 2009. It uncovers the intricate webs of life that make Mountain Ash forests so much more than their towering trees. It explores the unique forests that have sustained the Gunaikurnai, Taungurung and Wurundjeri peoples for tens of thousands of years, and that provide a home for creatures found almost nowhere else. The exquisite photographs reveal the Central Highlands of Victoria to be one of Australia's largely undiscovered natural treasures.